Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday, May 6, 2021.

I'm John Pothoritz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe

Greenwald, hi Abe.

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Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.

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And senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.

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So then we can say that one of the great medical miracles of all time was the development

of these three authorized vaccines, two of them using the same technology, Moderna and

Pfizer, mRNA technology, Johnson and Johnson using a different method.

There's also the AstraZeneca vaccine that seems to be on the on the I don't know with

the waiting room on the launch pad.

I don't know whatever analogy you want to give this all this all happened in unbelievably

record time. We have an amazing piece coming out in the magazine probably end of next week

by Jim Megs on how this happened and the speed with which it happened and the fact that

Moderna, the company that's one of the two vaccines literally came into existence in 2010

because it wanted to make use of mRNA technology or mRNA ideas that this was a new way to find

vaccines and cures and things.

It came into existence. It lost a lot of money. It had a big reversal in 2016 on a product

that it was trying to bring to market and that it was but it was all there ready and primed

in the minute that this came out and people knew about it. Moderna basically had the vaccine

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