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.