The status of the COVID vaccine is very NOT ready. Looking at the versions of the vaccine, each targeting a different part of the virus, one can see that there are still many candidate versions, and even less for human trials. Molecular platform here means the part of the virus targeted by a particular vaccine (from Wikipedia):
The vaccine is just NOT something that could be developed in a year, like a pharmaceutical, let's say a simple variant of an antibiotic.
About a 100 years ago, after the tobacco mosaic virus was discovered, the first opinions back then were ominously right: vaccines against viruses are generally futile. But the money hungry revolving-door government employees are ready to convince the governments to shell out millions to finance the schemes.
