Bobby. wrote on Apr 19
th, 2023 at 9:13am:
It takes 10 years to properly test a vaccine...
Not necessarily so.
Scientists have been working for many years, long before
the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, to develop vaccines
against coronaviruses. Knowledge gained through past research
helped speed up development of the COVID vaccines.
While SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was new to
the world, the family of viruses it came from was familiar to
infectious disease researchers.
Scientists were already researching potential vaccines for other
coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS, so they applied much of
what they had already knew to developing a COVID vaccine.
Additionally, SARS-CoV-2 causes an
acute illness, which makes it
inherently easier to vaccinate against—rather than a
chronic illness.
Older vaccines were typically created by using weakened or
inactivated viruses. Today, companies can simply read a virus's
genetic code and synthesize it in a lab, significantly shortening
development times.
—I apologise if these facts contradict the usual clique of anti-
vaxxer bullshit here. Well... not really LOL.