[HN Gopher] Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
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       Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
        
       Author : nabla9
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-02-02 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blogs.sciencemag.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blogs.sciencemag.org)
        
       | GizmoSwan wrote:
       | I disagree with the post inside the article because it is
       | logically flawed. The current approved crop did not have capacity
       | to produce those vaccines either. MRNA did not have the
       | facilities. It is mostly subcontracted. The reason that others
       | are not producing any vaccine, is due to fact that they don't
       | have it approved yet. There many contractors but not all
       | countries have them.
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       | The lesson in all this is for each country to produce their own
       | vaccines and create facilities within their own countries and
       | avoid being in mercy of superpowers' self interests and punish
       | companies that ignored them during times of great need.
        
       | ummonk wrote:
       | The article doesn't explain why you can't throw a lot of money at
       | licensing out and expanding the production of lipid nanoparticle
       | machines that it identifies as a bottleneck.
        
       | dllthomas wrote:
       | Is there anything those of us in other industries (software, 3D
       | printing) can do to increase production capacity of those special
       | purpose bespoke machines?
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       | (With an understanding that the best answer might just be "stay
       | out of the way"...)
        
         | natechols wrote:
         | Microfluidics is a fantastic area of research that more people
         | should get involved in. My impression is that it's very
         | difficult to make it work and expensive to scale up, but that
         | means there's plenty of room for improvement and business
         | models to be created. Too late to help with our current
         | pandemic though.
        
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