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Jonas Neubert
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Jonas Neubert's personal blog at blog.jonasneubert.com covers health and data. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in COVID vaccine threads for posts on vaccine manufacturing and supply chains, including a 2021 piece on suppliers and an analysis of Moderna's manufacturing tracker.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Excellent point to clarify. It is the materials (and equipment) for the encapsulation process that are the limiting step. Those are provided by Croda in the UK (in the case of Pfizer/BioNTech) not by BioNTech in Mainz as implied. BioNTech has very sophisticated manufacturing and packaging equipment there for sure, just not the limiting step. Or to be still more clear many labs have the ability to manufacture small q…
Comment linking /2021/01/10/exploring-the-supply-chain-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/
on “BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year”Submitted Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines as a story · 210 points
HN discussionBecause it's mostly not like you can throw a folder with a "recipe" over a fence and just have someone manufacture a vaccine in the required amounts and quality. The closest ones to this are probably vector vaccines like the AZ one, because they use a "relatively" well-known delivery technique (as in: one that was at least already used for a single market-ready vaccine before the Covid-19 ones). For that reason, AZ…
Comment linking /2021/01/10/exploring-the-supply-chain-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/
on “AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Peru trials”Submitted Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFrom "Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing"[0] > These will be special-purpose bespoke machines, and if you ask other drug companies if they have one sitting around, the answer will be “Of course not”. This is not anything close to a traditional drug manufacturing process. And this is the single biggest reason why you cannot simply call up those “dozens” of other companies and ask them to shift their existing production o…
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on “Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property”Submitted Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCanadian companies contributed significantly to developing these vaccines too. Vancouver-based Acuitas Therapeutics developed the lipid nanoparticle delivery mechanism for the Pfizer vaccine, for example. There are others as well. This article lists three Vancouver companies: https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl... And that's not even mentioning Vancouver biotech unicorn AbCellera, which has…
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on “Canada's 'gamble' on delaying, mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines paid off”Submitted Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo interesting to back into the numbers through partial information. This was also a good look at what good into the manufacturing process. https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
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on “Moderna Vaccine Manufacturing Tracker”https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
Comment linking /2021/01/10/exploring-the-supply-chain-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-covid-19-vaccines/
on “Ask HN: Why do got this vaccine mess – Problem explained from some expert?”