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by Tainnor 2092 days ago
I don't know about the US, but at least in Germany, no vaccine is being "rushed through". What is happening is that we're pumping a lot of money into the process in order to expedite it and remove idle time - for example, typically pharma companies wouldn't start preparations for a phase 2 or 3 trial before the previous phases were successful due to the high likelihood of failure. Now they will do precisely that, allowing them to save time, at the risk of having wasted a lot of resources for nothing if the previous phases do indeed turn out to be a failure.