This doesn’t seem right to me—if it takes 8 months minimum to turn over a factory to produce a new vaccine, how come there’s a reasonable (if not high) rate of production within a few weeks of each new vaccine coming on board? Had factories already started turning over for each individual vaccine just in case 8 months ago?
The 8 months is mostly turning a building that wasn’t a factory that could produce mRNA vaccines into a factory that can produce mRNA vaccines. The decision to build those factories was indeed made before the vaccine was approved.
This doesn’t seem right to me—if it takes 8 months minimum to turn over a factory to produce a new vaccine, how come there’s a reasonable (if not high) rate of production within a few weeks of each new vaccine coming on board? Had factories already started turning over for each individual vaccine just in case 8 months ago?
The 8 months is mostly turning a building that wasn’t a factory that could produce mRNA vaccines into a factory that can produce mRNA vaccines. The decision to build those factories was indeed made before the vaccine was approved.