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Originally Posted by baddog
Since H1N1 has only been known of for a few months I don't know how you can suggest otherwise.  |
The two sentences below the one you quoted explain the statement.
Describing flu vaccines as "drugs created on the fly" implies that there's something new or untested about them. But that isn't the case. Flu vaccines are made with existing adjuvants, based on an existing principle, using existing techniques.
It's a bit like putting new tire chains on your car when there's heavy snowfall. You didn't just create a new type of vehicle on the fly, you merely adapted an existing vehicle to new conditions.
It would be different if they used a new class of adjuvants, or used specific characteristic molecular structures of a virus that hadn't been used for that purpose before.