I am going to talk about two folks today that really deserve our thanks. Oh, sure, they won the Nobel Prize- but their path was pretty perturbed.
Tag Archives: mRNA
Ticked Off
It was about 20 years ago. We had a terrible scare.
My son (the youngest of the bunch) was “mustering” for his Civil War platoon. The kids, ranging in age from 8 to 10, were learning about Alexandria’s (VA) activities in the war. (You should know that it was a Federal bastion, with a slew of forts around the periphery to protect against Confederate encroachment. And, you do recall that the District of Columbia originally was comprised of 5 square miles separated from Maryland and 5 square miles from Virginia; this town was at one time known as Alexandria, DC.)
Another mRNA delivery vehicle
Having been subjected to needles routinely from the time I was a tyke, I developed a pathological hatred to being injected. After all, it would not be atypical for me to have been subjected to 150 injections in any given year, until I turned 12.
mRNA is on the way…
So, yesterday I talked about how we need to shrink the unknown unknowns – and the known unknowns as much as possible. And, that was in the context of how we’ve learned more and more about SARS-CoV-2 and living with the pandemic.
Moderna
Hmm. This pandemic has afforded us a brand new method of immunizing our populations, making the disease difficult to take hold. Consider that in 2020, we were being overrun with COVID-19. And, then, POOF! Vaccines appeared on the horizon.
Decades of Progress- recognized overnight
So many of the media are declaring how quickly we managed to develop vaccines for the scourge of the 21st Century, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Which Vaccine?
This is the fifth (and, for now, final) post in the third set of miniseries about COVID-19 and humans.