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The article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off.

The new technology is super exciting though, so lets give the article that. We're hardly so stagnant that a single technological breakthrough is unheard of in the last 50 years and signals an end of stagnancy.

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> The article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off.

I feel that you're splitting hairs here. The article mentions both in adjacent paragraphs.

And the fact that the vaccine was developed faster was also not a one-off, this is a feature of mRNA vaccines. Future vaccines can be manufactured with the same blueprint by just swapping out the mRNA sequence.

How does developing a vaccine two months faster have a lasting impact on daily life? The best case argument for having a noticeable impact is COVID, and we can't even use that because we split vaccine development into multiple tracks. It's possible that we would've had a traditional vaccine around the same time if we focused more resources on it and less on a novel technique.

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