I saw a quote recently saying something like claiming they have a surgeon making claims about an amazing new surgical procedure because they have an idea and a scalpel working.
No proof that it works, doesn't have terrible side effects, or actually does anything useful on humans.
And with that announcement, their stock price rose almost to their all-time high. Just as the stock price of the in-silico drug discovery platform did that claimed to have a vaccine within a day or so.
I'll believe it when I see it. Until then the estimate of 1-2 years (which is already pretty fast for a vaccine that isn't already on a yearly-cycle like the flu shot), sounds far more likely.
