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> Sounds like a problem you solve once and for all, for any vaccine.

I strongly doubt it. It's more like a problem you solve once for a particular class of payload and particular destination. Biology doesn't do packet switching - everything is just rapidly bumping into everything else at random, so your envelope needs to be designed in a way that's ignored by everything else than molecules at your target site, and it needs to not react with the payload it's carrying.

> And so many people have been killed by this overly conservative testing, phase ~<2.5 was enough

Overly conservative? That's what super-accelerated testing looks like. We're lucky it went well; had they screwed up, it would scare a lot more people away from vaccinating, lengthening the pandemic and increasing death toll.



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