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		exhilaration on Nov 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effecti... What's the normal timeline for a new vaccine? How many years does the testing usually take?

isolli on Nov 16, 2020 [–]

I don't have an answer, but the normal timeline should depend on the size of the population that you intend to vaccinate.

Testing a vaccine for 6 months and then deploying to hundreds of millions... seems short.

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