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By James Rosen LIKE SO MANY other Americans, I cheered in awe and happy disbelief last year as a band of driven, brainy scientists worked at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine to stop a pandemicâs deadly rampage across the globe. Sacrificing sleep, foregoing family time, fueled by adrenaline and hope, a small group of immunologists and virologists collaborated across borders to achieve the impossible: create a new type of vaccine from scratch in a fraction of the time previously required to create the inoculations that had conquered past pandemics. They didnât have the four decades it took before British physician Edward Jenner unveiled the smallpox vaccine in 1796, the first in world history. They didnât have the 12 years needed to unveil the flu vaccine in 1945, which to this day is only about 50 percent effective. They didnât even have the five years it took Dr. Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine, considered a medical miracle w ....
Young, Black, female and brilliant: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is a hero for our times She was integral to the COVID vaccine effort. And now she s lending her credibility to fight vaccine hesitancy. By James Rosen Text size Copy shortlink: Like so many other Americans, I cheered in awe and happy disbelief last year as a band of driven, brainy scientists worked at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine to stop a pandemic s deadly rampage across the globe. Sacrificing sleep, foregoing family, fueled by adrenaline and hope, a small group of immunologists and virologists collaborated across borders to achieve the impossible: create a new type of vaccine from scratch in a fraction of the time previously required to create the inoculations that had conquered past pandemics. ....
SHARE When Mariana Agiu reflected on her time as a hospital critical care nurse at the height of the pandemic’s first wave she had a startling realisation: almost everyone in the room was a woman. “I understand the reasons why….most of us in this profession are women, from the cleaners, the healthcare systems, nurses, even [half] the doctors are female,” explains Ms Agiu to The National. “It was always there, it’s just that we never thought about it.” She described her experience on a Covid ward as “very draining”. “Every day I would work hard thinking, I need to be there, I need to help. We are not enough. There are too many sick people,” she says. ....
The experts behind the BioNTech coronavirus jab have developed another vaccine which they claim cures multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice. The new MS vaccine works in a similar way to the coronavirus vaccine, manufactured in conjunction with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. A piece of genetic material known as mRNA is inserted into a person s arm and forces the body s own cells to produce a protein that confers immunity. In the case of the coronavirus vaccine, this protein mimics the virus s protruding spike, kickstarting the immune system to start making antibodies. If a person later contracts the coronavirus, the immune system rapidly creates antibodies again and fights the infection before it can take hold or spread. ....