[fuckknows]

Even if we have one, the larger problem will be scale. Having more than one type of effective vaccine available may actually be useful, since our existing manufacturing capacity for the different manufacturing processes can be used.

[lbeltrame]

That is also why all the major players with vaccine development already in humans (including but not limited to this one) have already started making manufacturing deals with large pharmaceutical corpoprations.

Vaccination on large scale will likely require tens of millions of doses, if not more (and let's not forget you may need more than one inoculation).

[dehrmann]

The vaccine manufacturing point needs way more attention. We were talking about ventilator manufacturing weeks after there was no chance they'd be done in time.

The economic benefits to distributing a vaccine quickly would be huge, but I haven't heard world leaders talking about how to do it--they're still on the last war. Luckily, Bill Gates is spending on it, but this needs way more attention because this is our chance to be ahead of the virus for once.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/bill-gates-7-potentia...

[wikibob]

Where do you derive the “tens of millions” of for the number of doses required?

That wouldn’t even be enough to vaccinate a mid sized EU country.

[lbeltrame]

I originally wrote "billions", thought I was exaggerating, so I edited the post. Probably off on the other side of the interval.