CV and mad panic behaviour

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Things may be sped up a bit due to the start of a vaccine for SARS a decade (or so) ago. Very similar diseases, so have a bit of a head start of sorts.

The two major candidate vaccines are using techniques never used ever before, there is no precedent for them. The conventional pathways are not going to be delivering vaccines anytime soon.

I heard a researcher who had worked on the original SARS, in fact their programme to develop a vaccine was cancelled a few years after the SARS outbreak subsided. They said even if it had not been cancelled they still might not have a viable vaccine 14 years later, but they felt they would have been much better placed with background knowledge to deal with SARs-CoV-2, of course the programme was cut to save money!