Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Moderna is probably going to be the first company to have the vaccine, to shorten the development time scale, they are creating a prototype manufacturing process in parallel with their vaccine trials. If they are successful, there is only one company that has this production technology. It will take years to ramp up production for the rest of the world. So for the first couple years, the vaccine will be for Americans only.
Production is going to be key for whichever candidate makes it through development. Moderna does not have the facilities to top do this scale of production. It will be subbed and pharmed out. Moderna does have allot of skill with this particular vaccine as they were very close with the original SARS already. All they did was change a small part of the vaccine to attribute to the spike protien. Smart people up there in Mass.
Technology will be stolen from foreign agents unfortunately.