The Vaccine Creation

                              

                                     The Vaccine Creation           

This is an interesting read from some guy I don't know. Some of it did not transfer.

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive. I put together a preliminary timeline of some key milestones to show how several years of work were compressed into months.

2:39 PM · Nov 28, 2020·Twitter Web App

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There are several points noteworthy related to this timeline: 1. Moderna had a head-start, so why didn't their Phase 3 trial finish first? Part of #OperationWarpSpeed (OWS), they were requested to slow down enrollment to get better minority representation https://nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine.html?searchResultPosition=1…

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Eric Topol

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2. 3 scientists led the way Katalin Karikó, worked on a mRNA vaccine for ~30 years, was demoted from

@PennMedicine

d/t losing her grants, went to

@moderna_tx

https://statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/… and the husband and wife team

@BioNTech_Group

https://nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-vaccine.html…

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3. The 5 days from sequencing the virus to design of an mRNA vaccine, relaye in our conversationsting rea