Library Day -- Part 2 -- September 10, 2023

Locator: 45598BOOKS. 

Updates

October 4, 2023: Nobel Prize in Medicine. Link here. 

Original Post 

Wow, this is going to be fascinating. This book has been added to my "Covid Library."

Salk and Sabin come to mind.

I think Algore discoverd the polio vaccine before "it" was a thing, but I could be wrong.

The Vaccine: Inside The Race to Conquer the Covid-19 Pandemic, Joe Miller with Dr Özlem Türeci and
Dr Uğur Şahin, c. 2022.

Creators of thee BioNTech-Pfizer Vaccine.

The children of Turkish migrant workers in Germany: again, why I am not worried about the "southern surge."

Again, the index in this book is lacking. Frustrating.

Page 23: first mention of Bill Gates. Critical. Dr Özlem Türeci and Dr Uğur Şahin who had started BioNTech "a decade earlier," were meeting with Bill Gates in October, 2018, one year before the outbreak. The company, by then, had treated more then four hundred cancer patients with mRNA technology. These efforts had come to the attention of Lynda Stuart, an immunologist and director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Page 25: second mention of Bill Gates, January, 2020, and now it gets very, very interesting.....HIV and tuberculosis. Bill Gates asked, "Was there potential to develop mRNA-based drugs, in record speed, during a pandemic? Uğur might want to consider preparing a "plug-and-play" (an old term first used byApple) solution for that moment, as a matter of urgency."

More to follow.

The chapter titles summarize the history:

• the outbreak
• Project Lightspeed [WarpSpeed, as some called it]
• the unknowns
• the mRNA Biohackers
• the tests
• forging alliances
• first in human
• on our own
• it works!
• the new normal
• epilogue