While we all share our journeys here with the vaccines I want to point out none of us would even be doing this if it weren't for the work of many dedicated scientists. When things are under control we need to ensure the ones that have really been critical to the development of these vaccine are all given the Nobel prize and anything else we can come up with! Many of them have been women too which is fantastic. Read about Katlin Kariko an immigrant from Hungary to the US, Nita Patel and Kizzmekia Corbett each of them have played significant roles in getting us where we are today, My hats off to these remarkable women! https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/katalin-kariko-covid-19-vaccine-scientist-trnd/index.html
NPR interviews the British chemist who writes one article a day about women scientists. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/953334366
If you have never heard her voice, this is your golden opportunity, Wade is waxing eloquent about articles for women who are developing coronavirus vaccines:
- Sarah Gilbert, who created the Oxford vaccine, just approved for use in the U.K. She is working on the development of different vaccines that can work on different coronaviruses.
- Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman at the National Institute of Health who has worked on vaccines for SARS and MERS.
