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> And once you have a candidate treatment, you've still got to produce and supply that, with manufacturing and logistics considerations, all of which were evident in the rollout of existing SARS-COV-2 vaccines (e.g., production issues, patent licensing, quality control, storage and refrigeration, cold-chain management, patient contact, scheduling, and follow-up, etc.).

One of those manufacturing / logistics consideration was "we need to make a lot of high quality, sterile glass that can withstand the temperatures that the pharmaceutical companies are saying they're going to be using for transport."

Corning was part of Operation Warp Speed - https://youtu.be/asDKBi5Ungc - they had to build a glass plant to make 0.5B vials/year.