They said it was “experimental.”
They said it was developed too fast, that it was “rushed.”
They said it was a political move by bureaucratic government scientists, and Anthony Fauci was the archvillain.
They even said it was a monstrosity that would change your DNA, make you infertile, and give Bill Gates microchip control over a population of “sheeple.”
Today, hundreds of thousands of people owe their lives to a COVID vaccine using mRNA technology – technology that has been studied and refined since the 1980s.
Molecular biologist Katalin Karikó was convinced that mRNA could revolutionize vaccine delivery. For almost a decade, Dr. Karikó worked in obscurity.
A chance meeting with immunologist Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania changed history.
It was 1998. Karikó and Weissman were chatting at the copy machine, waiting for it to warm up. Thus began a partnership with the goal of using mRNA to deliver a safe and revolutionary vaccine.
Karikó and Weissman first published their groundbreaking discoveries in 2005. For the next fifteen years, they continue to work and publish with little funding.
But two biotech companies, Moderna and BioNTech, noticed.
And in 2020, with a deadly pandemic looming, these companies combined the years of coronavirus research being done at the NIH and other labs with the work of Karikó and Weissman to produce two COVID-19 vaccines, each using mRNA technology.
Today, FOUR DECADES of research later, the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.
Congratulations and well-done from a grateful world.
Janet K. Ray 
Great post, Janet, and very timely, since I just got my latest shot (the new booster) a few hours ago. For me the blessings of the mRNA science are mixed with the tragedy that so many Christians have been fooled by what I can only call the “Satanic” lies of the anti vax cult, causing the unnecessary deaths of 1 -200,000 people. I made a short pro vax video aimed at Christians in late 2021, and the response was frightening. Let’s pray that this evil will pass away.
Perfectly said, as always.
I knew a retired Church of Christ minister and wife who, unfortunately, were influenced by information sources that were against the vaccine. Unvaxed, they both caught covid in late 2021 and a month or so later died side by side, in the hospital, one hour apart.
What a tragedy.
Bravo to these two scientists for their hard work and dedication!
Yes!!
I’ve had four doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine with no problems. So much for those hysterically claiming that it was poison and it contained a tracking device. (Apparently “they” want to kill me and _then_ they want to track my dead body? Seriously?)
Interestingly my wife has had three does. She had a bad reaction to the first, a very bad reaction to the second, and the reaction to the third was so severe that her GP has strongly suggested she doesn’t have any more of that brand.
So I’d say adverse reactions are rare but they do happen. But the large majority of us who can have it with no problems should do so to protect the small minority among us like my wife who cannot have it.
DarrenG
Agree!