On April 23, 2019 the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security publishes a report titled “Vaccine Platforms: State of the Field and Looming Challenges“. The project was sponsored by Facebook’s co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz’s “Open Philanthropy Project“, which coincidentally also sponsored the Event 201 coronavirus simulation. [1, 2, 3]
“[O]ver the past several years, [vaccine] platform technologies have been developed that could make it possible for multiple vaccines to be more rapidly produced from a single system.” In the report “the researchers describe major scientific and policy issues related to vaccine platforms” and “it provides recommendations aimed at helping realize the potential benefits of vaccine platform technologies” such as mRNA vaccines.
To date “there has been little in-depth analysis of platform vaccine technologies as a distinct class of technologies and approaches.” If these vaccine platform could be accepted by regulators and policy makers it would open the flood gates for investors and development, not to mention the promoted “urgent need for vaccines to combat emerging infectious disease outbreaks.”