COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I work in clinical development in stem cell & gene therapy. My boss has been doing this stuff a long time. I showed him this article and asked if he'd seen it (we are also in San Diego). His response:

"True, but marketing fluff. It would take me 5 minutes to design an effective vaccine for this (just use the capsid sequence). I assume they just put the capsid sequencing in their plasmid vector... It is all the next steps that take all the time."

For whatever that is worth to you guys.

That makes sense. Getting vaccines or any other meds to market takes a long time because of all the red tape they have to go through. I guess the real question is what kind of side effects it will have.

I don't have any idea what expidited timelines would be for the FDA to approve the vaccine. Should be interesting to see how it turns out.