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You can amass 1000 person-years of testing with 10 subjects and 100 years, or with 1000 subjects and 1 year. Or with some intermediate ramp-up plan.

The "decades of public use" metric needs to also take into account how widespread that use is.

Now consider how many doses of mRNA vaccines have been given worldwide (1), since the public rollouts began in December 2020. mRNA vaccines are no longer unknown, at all.

1) Billions of doses https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...