“The vaccine has been developed too quickly and is unsafe” Here are some things you should know about why the #COVID19 #vaccine has got here so fast and where huge amounts of time have been saved… (clue – it’s not in the testing). Thread…

— Kat Arney (@Kat_Arney) December 3, 2020

Yep. Testing time was about normal. Vaccines aren’t (generally) profitable so the funding and development time is extremely long if it happens at all.

There was profit to be had here, so a vaccine was developed quickly.

I’ve often wondered if there has been no AIDS vaccine not because developing it is impossible but because it’s far more profitable for Big Pharma for there not to be one. I suspect that is probably true.