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A New Vaccine, a Novel Coronavirus
Moderna had been quietly overseeing a revolution in mRNA technology. They'd built a platform model for drug treatments and vaccines. Stefan knew this platform had great potential, but in early 2020 it was relatively untested. Moderna's platform was tailor made respond quickly to a pathogen like coronavirus. But putting that vaccine into production so that it would be ready to roll out if the Wuhan outbreak became a pandemic would be a huge upheaval and risk for the company.