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junippor | 4 years ago

I don't know any details, but my understanding if that manufacturing vaccines is quite difficult.

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jarmitage|4 years ago

Me neither, but I find it hard to believe that it is more difficult than remaining stuck in the pandemic.

quonn|4 years ago

As far as I know, Germany helped BioNtech with their new plant but even then it took at least half a year to get that going. And that was despite the fact that they could buy and adapt it instead of building it from scratch.

For example, in software, maybe it takes a single developer a year to build a compiler for some advanced language and we can speed it up to 3 months by adding some people. But could we get to a week by adding 12x more? We can‘t and it may be the same with vaccine production.

junippor|4 years ago

The manufacturing process is a matter of precision engineering. "Remaining stuck" is just... psychologically difficult? How do you compare which one is "more difficult"?

Your comment makes absolutely no sense.