Quote Originally Posted by frogmiller View Post
I appreciate that Grist. It’s just baffling how after so many times being that it wasn’t given extra funding over the years because it can’t have been working that it was given clearance to be an emergency drug. It was allowed to be pumped into so many people without the normal safety tests and without knowing of the dangers.
It's not baffling at all.

Here’s an article concerning the history of mRNA vaccine research:

https://ifp.org/progress-deferred-le...e-development/

The bottom line is that mRNA is difficult and expensive to work with, there is very little money to be made on vaccines and most of the research prior to covid was in respect of trying to produce an HIV vaccine, which has proved to be incredibly difficult with traditional technology. Vast amounts of money was then thrown at covid and that funding allowed the technology to be developed.