She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one
of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a
highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.
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By the first week of January 2020, the number of infected people in
China had climbed to the hundreds, and Dr. Corbett, a viral
immunologist, was back at her desk at the National Institutes of
Health, where she served as a senior research fellow at the Vaccine
Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. And that's when the news was confirmed: The mysterious
illness was a novel coronavirus, exactly the category of infection
that she had been probing for the past five years in a bid to develop
a vaccine.

Coronaviruses can cause all kinds of illness, like the common cold or
more crippling diseases like MERS and SARS. Novel coronaviruses are
new strains that are identified in humans for the first time. And when
it came to the race for a vaccine against Covid-19, Dr. Corbett, who
was part of important work on other coronavirus outbreaks, was at the
vanguard.

Next month will be the three-year anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaring Covid-19 a pandemic, on March 11, 2020. But
in those fraught first few months of 2020, Dr. Corbett helped lead a
team of scientists that contributed to one of the most stunning
achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective,
easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19, delivered and authorized
for use in under a year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/science/covid-vaccine-kizzmekia-corbett.html

PIC - On March 3, 2020, Dr. Corbett, who was then at the National
Institutes of Health, talked to a group including President Donald J.
Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci as they toured the laboratory where she worked.Credit...Evan Vucci/Associated Press

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On 2023-02-13, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one
of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a
highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.

Don't tell the Republicans: she's a black female, from a middle-class
family, who went to public schools. Pretty much everything they stand
against.

This lady is a hero. From racist old North Carolina.

She's even got an African-sounding name, scandalous! What will the conservative christians say about that?

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:18 +0000, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

Don't tell the Republicans: she's a black female, from a middle-class
family, who went to public schools.

I can only wonder if Trump was fully informed.

PIC - On March 3, 2020, Dr. Corbett, who was then at the National
Institutes of Health, talked to a group including President Donald J.
Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci as they toured the laboratory where she worked.Credit...Evan Vucci/Associated Press

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On 2023-02-14, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:18 +0000, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

Don't tell the Republicans: she's a black female, from a middle-class >>family, who went to public schools.

I can only wonder if Trump was fully informed.

Lord, I'm sure he knew, just chose not to publicize it.

She's a pretty amazing scientist, really low-profile, just getting the
work done. Trump and Co. probably wouldn't even know how to relate to a
person like that.

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Retrograde wrote:

On 2023-02-13, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one
of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a
highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.

Don't tell the Republicans: she's a black female, from a middle-class
family, who went to public schools. Pretty much everything they stand against.

This lady is a hero. From racist old North Carolina.

She's even got an African-sounding name, scandalous! What will the conservative christians say about that?

Both you and this affirmative-action negress deserve to die of 'suddenly'.

Go take another booster.

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:18:00 +0000, Anonymous <anon@anon.net> wrote:

negress

Who most likely can beat you at crossword puzzles...let that sink in.

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On 2/13/2023 21:28, Retrograde wrote:

She's even got an African-sounding name, scandalous! What will the conservative christians say about that?

I've noticed that you repeatedly lump "conservatives" and "Christians"
into the same category, as if the two go hand in hand. I'd like to take
a moment to clarify that they, in fact, are not mutually exclusive.

Even still, I think it's a stretch, at the very best, to call all, or
even most, conservative Christians "racist", "sexist", etc., as a rule
of thumb. Frankly, it's a rather insulting implication. I've said my
piece.

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:27:15 -0500, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

"conservatives" and "Christians"
into the same category

Religious Group Voting and the 2020 Election
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Bottom Line

Americans' religious identities were clearly related to their vote in
this presidential election, and in that sense, religion did factor
into the outcome. About one-fourth of all voters were White
evangelical Christians, and they voted overwhelmingly for Trump,
providing a core segment of his base vote. About as many voters were
"nones" -- those with no formal religious identity -- and 65% of them
voted for Biden, providing him a key component of his winning
coalition. Additionally, almost all non-Christian groups (those who
identify with a religion that is not Christian) voted strongly for
Biden. And the rough split in the Catholic vote -- over a fifth of all
votes cast -- was an instrumental factor in the outcome as well.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/324410/religious-group-voting-2020-election.aspx

I think it's a stretch, at the very best, to call all, or
even most, conservative Christians "racist", "sexist", etc., as a rule
of thumb.

Is NIMBY history?

I have no idea what a conservative Christian is all about, but if they
voted for Trump, their beliefs are not based in Christianity.

It was clear, if one did their homework before 2016, that Trump was a
rotten apple.

rotten apple - "someone who creates problems or causes trouble for
others"

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:27:15 -0500
Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

I've noticed that you repeatedly lump "conservatives" and "Christians"
into the same category, as if the two go hand in hand. I'd like to take
a moment to clarify that they, in fact, are not mutually exclusive.

Even still, I think it's a stretch, at the very best, to call all, or
even most, conservative Christians "racist", "sexist", etc., as a rule
of thumb. Frankly, it's a rather insulting implication. I've said my
piece.

You've got a good point; pls accept my apology. I don't have anything
against Conservatives (even find myself conservative on some issues) or Christians (was raised Presbyterian back in the day). Looks like a
cheap shot poorly thought out, and generalizations never hold up to
scrutiny as you point out.

I do dislike those people who in the name of Jesus advocate for hateful
things. Whatever those people should be called.

Your point stands - sorry.

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On 3/4/2023 21:45, Retrograde wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:27:15 -0500
Michael Trew<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

I've noticed that you repeatedly lump "conservatives" and "Christians"
into the same category, as if the two go hand in hand. I'd like to take
a moment to clarify that they, in fact, are not mutually exclusive.

Even still, I think it's a stretch, at the very best, to call all, or
even most, conservative Christians "racist", "sexist", etc., as a rule
of thumb. Frankly, it's a rather insulting implication. I've said my
piece.

You've got a good point; pls accept my apology. I don't have anything against Conservatives (even find myself conservative on some issues) or Christians (was raised Presbyterian back in the day). Looks like a
cheap shot poorly thought out, and generalizations never hold up to
scrutiny as you point out.

Thank you.

I do dislike those people who in the name of Jesus advocate for hateful things. Whatever those people should be called.

I can't stand those people either. "Hypocrites" would be a good name.

I grew up going to a small Presbyterian community church, which still
puts money right back into the community dinner. They buy dozens and
dozens of turkeys for poor local families around Thanksgiving, and go on mission trips and do work around the US and in foreign countries, from
time to time, when funds allow.

The people I also can't stand are the mega-churches, who give small
community churches a bad name. You know the type, millionaire pastor
living in a huge mansion, all tax-free... that's disgusting.

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