237 – The Vaccine Manhattan Project




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Summary: <br> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkingbiotechpodcast.com%2F237-vaccine-manhattan-project%2F&amp;via=talkingbiotech" class="twitter-share-button" data-size="large">Tweet</a><br>  <br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/237-Rajaniemi-cover.png"></a><br>  <br> The wartime response of the Manhattan Project streamlined production of weapons to revolve World War II.  The plan involved massive redundancy, streamlining and parallelization of approaches to ensure the most rapid progress in technology development.  Dr. Hannu Rajaniemi of HelixNano called for the development of a Vaccine Manhattan Project <a href="https://medium.com/@hannu_64912/six-months-to-a-vaccine-7ebc9e9018a8">in a recent article on Medium,</a> suggesting a pathway to widespread immunization in six months, and at a fraction of the cost of sustained shutdown or consumer reluctance to participate in the economy. He examines the current state of the pandemic, the proposed methods of mitigation, and what the path to a vaccine in six months might look like.<br> Dr. Hannu Rajaniemi on Twitter – <a href="https://twitter.com/hannu">@Hannu</a><br> <br>