[1]https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2020/06/04/moderna-cor...
[1]https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2020/06/04/moderna-cor...
The real technology in these vaccines is actually encasing them in a lipid, which prevents your immune system from attacking the mRNA.
I think this particular virus was one of the best possible for a pandemic. One the one hand it causes a serious, potentially deadly, illness. But on the other hand the illness does not immediately destroy our health system, let alone our industrial basis. It is also ideally suited for the relatively new mRNA vaccines.
This might be cynical, but the whole thing might turn out to be a net positive. Many more viruses could be attacked now. Personalized, immediate cancer treatment could be just one step away after this. Heck, we might even have found the solution to the problem with antibiotics resistent bacteria.