As Deutsche Bank wrote at the start of August, whereas vaccines normally require years of testing and additional time to produce at scale, amidst the covid pandemic scientists are hoping to develop a coronavirus vaccine within an extremely truncated timeframe of only 12 to 18 months. The reason for that while normally a vaccine takes years to develop using a traditional process, with covid things are far more accelerated... {chart} ... with BofA showing how what is typically a 10 year process could - in theory - be compressed to just 12 months: {chart} ... and furthermore, there are already no less than 160 covid ... (full story)