Immigrant/Tech Triumph over Pandemic

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The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19

Two relatively unknown (to the world) biotechnology scientists Dr. Ugur Sahin & Dr. Özlem Türeci (Turks emigrated to Germany & founded BioNTech) has teamed up with Pfizer on a vaccine that was found to be more than 90 percent effective. They use a so-called messenger RNA technology . Early this year, they contacted the Pfizer head, a Greek immigrant. Putting down the historical differences from their mother countries, they rapidly develop the vaccine which would potentially put covid-19 pandemic to an end.

Adapted from
article by David Gelles
Nov. 10, 2020 NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/busi ... ticleShare

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The World has been competing to come up with a vaccine. It does not matter which country or organization win. The World will bebefit.

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Some useful Questions and Answers from United Nations.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detai ... 3QQAvD_BwE

Hope comes from the vaccine...