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Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Benefits of RNA-Based Therapies

The mRNA-based flu vaccine from about 2018 was almost like a template that they could just redeploy for COVID. The vaccines start going into the arms of patients in December 2020. And so why do vaccines normally take so long to be developed? Well, you can develop a vaccine, but if there is no virus around, that it is difficult to evaluate.

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