UK Begins Vaccination Next Week
Brits to Distribute First of 40,000 Doses of BioNTech Vaccine
The powerful vaccine is about 95% effective after two doses. Like the Moderna vaccine, it is made with synthetic messenger RNA. The German company BioNTech designed it and the American multinational Pfizer is manufacturing it.
The Brits plan to prioritize nursing homes and their employees first. This video explains the UK perspective.
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Some Germans complain about allowing foreigners to immigrate. They hit the trifecta when a pair of Turkish Scientists started BioNTech with an ethnic German in the city of Maintz.
Uğur Şahin is a billionaire physician oncologist and entrepreneur.
Özlem Türeci is a physician, immunologist, and businesswoman. She’s the Chief Medical Officer. Until 2020 her focus was on developing individual immunotherapy treatment for cancer patients and a non-government organization, Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT)For the last year, she headed the team that developed the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Christof Hubers is a Swiss cardiac surgeon, author, inventor, and entrepreneur. Not sure how he got in here. Like the Turks, he seems to be a billionaire.
Why Don't the Brits Us the Oxford vaccine?
Seems odd that Perfidious Albion (aka the UK) doesn’t use the vaccine made by friends of the blog at Oxford University. That will be the subject of tomorrow’s ruminations.
Meanwhile, Back in the USA....
US airlines will no longer provide free seats for support peacocks, cats, pythons, pigs, lizards, etc. Also, no dogs that have bitten passengers.
Life is tough at the end of 2020.
Sorry about missing yesterday. I had to read a chapter to my writing group. You don’t think the dulcet prose in these posts comes from talent alone?
Think again.
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