Originally posted by LongIslandZagFan
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The research that helped to develop vaccines against the new coronavirus didn’t start in January. For years, researchers had been paying attention to related coronaviruses, which cause SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), and some had been working on new kinds of vaccine — an effort that has now paid off spectacularly.
Decades of research have gone in to developing the science and techniques needed to create these vaccines. In a way scientists were lucky that such a heavily researched virus type ended up causing this pandemic. They had such a head start.
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