During the development of the COVID-19 vaccines, regulatory agencies accepted reliance on already existing data from vaccines based on the same technology. This leveraging of existing data, the so-called ‘prior knowledge’, was not new in vaccine development. For example, seasonal influenza vaccines’ reliance on related authorised strains minimises data required for annual updates.

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