General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I couldn't care less what Gaffer said. The 'Journal of Biomedical Science' knows a whole lot more than him because he's not a Biomedical Scientist.

Vaccines against coronaviruses were being developed since the 2002 outbreak. That's 18 years!
And they say, "On the basis of the knowledge and information gained from preclinical studies with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV13, the spike protein was identified as an antigenic target for the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 at a very early stage".

Translated, that means - "the work carried out in the 18 years, from the 2002 outbreak, to date, played a major part in developing the latest vaccine in a comparatively short time".