I know these threads tend to get bogged down with the various things all COVID related threads do these days, but let's just take a second to savor this moment. The mRNA vaccines were developed in days[0], using only the genetic sequence of the virus. Yes, testing took many months, but science solved what is typically the hard part of the problem overnight.

Personally I'm hoping I get the mRNA vaccine not so much because they're currently the most effective, but because it will make me some small part of one of the most impactful scientific works of our lifetimes.

We should be seeing another announcement in a week for the Moderna mRNA vaccine as well as their committee review is scheduled for 12/17.

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