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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Chris, when I said we were working on an inoculation for decades, I was referring to coronaviruses, not specifically COVID-19.
And is all very well being wise after the event, but there was no confidence that we'd have an effective vaccine in the foreseeable future. It was a hope, that was all.
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Incorrect - as you would know if you bothered to read either of the links I provided. Immunologists were confident they could produce a vaccine quickly because they knew coronaviruses’ vulnerability is their spike protein. It requires this in order to infect a host; this is also something that can be programmed into a vaccine relatively easily.
Earlier you inferred that decades of research into coronaviruses meant the production of a specific covid-19 vaccine would be a slow process. In fact, that research made it a rapid process - and the rapidity with which a vaccine could be produced was indicated by Oxford and others at a very early stage. Sorry but your argument simply doesn’t hold water.