BLACKISTON – “I DIDN’T KNOW IF I WAS ALIVE OR DEAD”
April 27, 2021 11:35 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Early yesterday, after a dramatic trackwork fall at
Ballarat, trainer
Nigel Blackiston wasn’t sure if he was alive or dead.
Blackiston had been riding more work than usual because of a track rider shortage he and others have described as “diabolical.”
He’d cantered a lap of the inside sand on a particularly big horse, when the horse suddenly collapsed and died.
Blackiston remembers nothing of the fall, just the dream.
“All I remember is the horse went down and then I had these misty dreams, things like white roses and green fields. It was bizarre,” he said.
Meet the women behind the vaccines, helping to find a path out of the coronavirus pandemic
By Kate Guest
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The work of Katalin Karikó, Maheshi Ramasamy and Catherine Green was key to coronavirus vaccine development.
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From paving the way for mRNA vaccines to be used, to overseeing large-scale clinical trials, much of the critical work in bringing COVID-19 immunisations to the world has been done by women.
They may not be household names, but behind the scenes these researchers and doctors have worked tirelessly to try and etch a path out of the pandemic.