Molalla1
Elite Member
Bill Gates dumped what, $240 million into funding 8 different vaccine production lines before anybody knew which ones would be successful. He knew that if everyone sat on their thumbs waiting for one that worked, we would still be waiting a year later. The US is swimming in vaccines now. My local county health ran a drive-through mass vaccination yesterday, and spent a whole week advertising availability of time slots. Average on-site check-in time was 90 seconds. They were using the Pfizer vaccine, so first timers will have to check back next month for their second shot.
Last month I watched a Zoom presentation by the professor who won a Nobel Prize for CRISPR. He said he has grad students who could design a mRNA vaccine in a week. People have no idea how fast biotech is progressing.
It is the same here now Larry (I'm in OR) . . . wasn't that long ago it was hard to get in . . .