Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine...

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2. She had been studying viruses which also have the Covid spike

In her summer college job the head of the division, Dr Barney Graham, asked her what her plans were. She said “I want your job.” She got her Ph D and came to work for Graham, developing vaccines. Previously she had studied viruses similar to Coronavirus which have that spike sticking up, and she had studied the mRNA theory for possible vaccines. I think they went after covid19 when only 31 people in the US had tested positive. I think it took them two days to find a target vaccine. It worked like a charm in their 30,000 human trial group. We owe Kizzie and her coworkers so much. When President Trump Mar 3 visited NIH to see the work on the vaccine Fauci took him to meet Graham and Kizzie in the lab where they were doing the science.

I am in a high risk group so I am extremely grateful to so many people, the grocery workers, the businesses which have sacrificed to limit the spread, to Kizzie and the army of scientists who have worked their asses off, for many years, to find a solution in record time.