on january 7th and he said as soon as you design the vaccine antigen or the protein sequence, we ll make it and we ll start the programme. the idea was that the government scientists would design the vaccine and moderna would make it. this consortium of. dr graham s team came up with the coding sequence for the vaccine in a week, and he emailed it to moderna. we went just as fast as we could, and so we got the sequences. we designed all of the re agents we needed, we designed the vaccine prototype that we thought would work best and they started manufacturing right away. moderna manufactured the vaccine and made the vaccine, but it wasn t even doing the early
inside. that this is highly transmittable, and they see it as almost a hybrid between the india variant and the uk variant. and so they re sending out an alert. they re saying that they ll have the coding sequence up and available sometime soon. but again, it adds to the urgency, as we see these new variants driving a surge in infections, in particular across asia with this urgency, there again is more fuel in this debate about what has caused covid-19 to begin with. it all goes back to the origins of the coronavirus. and ultimately, that will come back here. but again, it s unlikely to be a very receptive or productive discussion with chinese officials. all right. thank you so much, janis. that s nbc s janis mackey frayer in beijing.
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