Seven months for a trial that should normally take years, no chance I’m taking it unless I’m forced to at work. I will eventually take it once I know people aren’t growing extra ears or bursting into flames but diabetic or not I ain’t being anyone’s trial beagle. Remember the miracle thalidomide treatment for pregnant women...yes it wasn’t a vaccine but regardless I ain’t trusting no vaccine for now
The issue with Thalidomide was that medicines and vaccines were often only tested on animals then male prisoners at that time (they could volunteer to get time off sentences or other perks). Now we recognise that new drugs and vaccines need to be tested on pregnant animals, then both sexes and a range of ages and ethnicities. And as others have pointed out the main lag in development is funding, needed at various stages.
Funding is a huge issue, I was involved in running testing for a new method of detecting early eye damage (MS, diabetic, etc.) but it was dropped even though the first stage was looking good because the funding dried up.