On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:39 AM, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Well, currently, a vaccine can be developed in *days* (possibly even 
hours) once they have the gene sequence of the virus.

Not even *remotely* true or one for the coronavirus would be in massive production now.  

The full genome was sequenced and publically announced in January. It’s possible that Chinese researchers had done so before the beginning of the year https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200131114748.htm

Initial clinical trials of investigational candidates started in March 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00798-8 

And we don’t even know if a vaccine would be effective against it: we develop antibodies against the coronaviruses that cause the common cold, yet we can be repeatedly re-infected with them.

(And we've had the HIV virus completely sequenced for *decades* without having developed an effective vaccine.)

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