Vaccines were grown in eggs, which i takes a while. The ability to ramp up billions, hundreds of millions, at least, there are billions of ses,. was another enormous factor in this near miracle of innovation. It couldn't avebeen done with the traditional vaccine as fast and more people would have died.
In the race for a COVID vaccine, how did a couple of companies who had never produced a successful vaccine make it to the finish line so quickly? Gregory Zuckerman talks about his book, A Shot to Save the World, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the daring, deranged, and damaged visionaries behind one of science and medicine's great success stories.