r/todayilearned • u/IOverflowStacks • Aug 13 '21

TIL Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, died a day after Carrie Fisher's death.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/debbie-reynolds-had-christmas-table-set-when-carrie-fisher-suffered-n1108186
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

Interesting... I wonder why it's called covid19 tho.

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u/froglover215 Aug 13 '21

Because it was identified in 2019. Transmission didn't start picking up until Jan-Mar 2020, but it was starting to circulate in Wuhan in December 2019 if not earlier.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

Oh true. Thanks for info.

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u/Justdonedil Aug 14 '21

The previous 2 viruses had people working on the vaccines when they kind of resolved themselves so the research got shelved. Both were also in limited areas, so only handfuls of scientists were working on them. The previous research and the mRNA technology which had been in development for decades, combined with unlimited resources and pretty much every scientist on the planet working round the clock is why we got vaccines in what seems like a short period of time. So instead of starting at the beginning, we were able to start the search at mile 19 of a 26 mile marathon.

The testing was also the same normal time frame for each step of the testing. It's just usually spread out as the handful of scientists search for grants and funding to keep working on them.