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Originally Posted by Two Bills
I think a Turkish married couple with their own research company in Germany were heavily involved in the discovery of the Pfizer vaccine, or have they already been written out of history?
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I think you should re read the link I supplied. It is pretty specific about where, who and when.
"But long before COVID-19 was on the radar, the groundwork was laid in large part by two different streams of research, one at the NIH and the other at the University of Pennsylvania — and because scientists had learned a bit about other coronaviruses from prior SARS and MERS outbreaks."
"That was a discovery in 2013, when Graham, deputy director of NIH’s Vaccine Research Center, and colleague Jason McLellan were investigating a decades-old failed vaccine against RSV, a childhood respiratory illness.
"They homed in on the right structure for an RSV protein and learned genetic tweaks that stabilized the protein in the correct shape for vaccine development."
"Likewise, Germany’s BioNTech in 2018 had partnered with New York-based Pfizer to develop a more modern mRNA-based flu vaccine, giving both companies some early knowledge about how to handle the technology.
“This was all brewing. This didn’t come out of nowhere,” said Pfizer’s Dormitze"
"Then at the NIH, Graham woke up on Saturday Jan. 11 to see Chinese scientists had shared the genetic map of the new coronavirus. His team got to work on the right-shaped spike protein. Days later, they sent Moderna that recipe — and the vaccine race was on."
Amazing....this is what these folks do full time and are good at at. Lots of people, many countries, and lots of scientific co operation.