The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
The invention of vaccines against a virus identified only 10 months ago is an extraordinary scientific achievement.
They are the fastest vaccines ever developed, by a margin of years.
From virtually the day Chinese scientists shared the genetic sequence of a new coronavirus in January, researchers began designing vaccines that might train the immune system to recognize the still-unnamed virus. They needed to identify a suitable piece of the virus to turn into a vaccine, and one promising target was the spike-shaped proteins that decorate the new virus’s outer shell. Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines both rely on the spike protein, as do many vaccine candidates still in development. These initial successes suggest this strategy works; several more COVID-19 vaccines may soon cross the finish line. To vaccinate billions of people across the globe and bring the pandemic to a timely end, we will need all the vaccines we can get.
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The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are a Turkish-German power couple
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Germany funded the development of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine—not U.S.’s Operation Warp Speed
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/11/09/pfizer-vaccine-funding-warp-speed-germany/amp/
