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Re: Article ask why vaccine production was so slow.

Kink in the Vaccine Pipeline

Originally Posted by afludiary.blogspot.com

The logistics of isolating a new virus, creating a seed strain that grows well, producing vaccine in quantity, getting through clinical trials, distributing it to the states, and getting it into the arms of the American public are nothing less than enormous.

It was anticipated from the start that it would take 6 months to see a pandemic vaccine begin to roll off the assembly line, so the fact that we have any at all after just five months is actually an accomplishment.

But somewhere along the way, the decision was made to release `best-case’ estimates of how much vaccine could be made available by mid-October; an impressive (and reassuring) 120 million doses.

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