Thread by @NickytaLeb

In the 1968 flu pandemic, the first batch of vaccines came out on day 66, and 5 million doses were released by day 87.

But please tell me that the mRNA vaccines are the fastest thing possible & that we should build all our future pandemic plans on the "tweeked in 2 days" mRNA.

A lot of doses were produced...

But even though it was really fast, the vaccines didn't come soon enough.

We didn't learn this lesson in 1968.
We repeated the mistakes for H1N1 and now once more for COVID variants.

The H1N1 vaccine timeline: vaccines arriving late, in high-income countries first yet still so late that many high-income countries refused to take them or pay for them.

In a pandemic, it's better to have a fast vaccine that protects you immediately (even if for a short period of time) than one that protects for "a year or longer" but takes a year or longer to get to you.

LICs are waiting 2 years for the "super-fast" Wuhan-Hu-1-based vaccines.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Some scientists and blue checkmarks bashed "the short duration protection of (single-dose) intranasal vaccines compared to the mRNA vaccines" (of which we're at dose 3 and soon 4) with a totally straight face, while pushing "natural Delta boosters."

If the plan is to repeat the mistakes of H1N1 and COVID-19 for every subsequent new strain or pathogen or rebrand our collective actions as "successes" and give promotions to those who failed, then we should not be disappointed when future pandemics have similar outcomes.

100~ days to deliver a vaccine strain update that took folks in the 1960's 66 days to do.

"But muh mRNA vaccine induces T cells"

I guess that's the most important thing. Not saving lives, not preventing disease, but inducing T cells. T cells that we're told we all already have.