First Dose of COVID Vaccine

Very proud to receive my first COVID vaccine — incredibly lucky and privileged.

COVID vaccine first dose. Image: LinkedIn.

Very proud to have received my first dose of COVID vaccine today. How incredibly lucky and privileged I am to be living in this time and benefiting from this scientific miracle, an mRNA-based vaccine developed within a record time!

So many things had to happen before this moment to make it real: the long string of scientific ingenuities, the bravery of immigrants, a place where merits and innovations are still rewarded regardless of race, color, religion, and national origin, the persistent pursuit for a scientific dream, the personal sacrifices and perseverance, and the incredibly disciplined teamwork - all of these ingredients to make up this little dose of medicine just in time!

• Reverse engineering Pfizer vaccine: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
• The scientist behind the mRNA-based vaccines - Katalin Karikó: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
• How Pfizer makes its Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Originally posted on LinkedIn.