Comment Re:Definitions and error bars please (Score 1) 177
It wasn't rushed - it was simply that the usual years of bureaucracy was eliminated from the process. Nothing like a pandemic to put a rocket up a pen-pushers arse.
mRNA vaccines have been under development for decades, but a key problem was getting enough virus sample to test (there wasn't enough SARs or MERs because, although very dangerous, neither was especially infective). SARS-Cov2 fixed that.