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These both use mRNA technology which is new but has heavily been invested in for years. SARS classic, MERS, and Ebola had all spurred development of tools for rapid vaccine development and that meant that a lot of the technical hurdles were accomplished before the crisis started, so the remaining work was still massive but within the range of possibility:

https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Article/2020-07-19-the-oxford-...




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