It was the early 1990s in Atlanta when Malcolm Reid first felt the lymph nodes on his neck seemed swollen. “And I read an article in Ebony Magazine. That’s when […]
Maybe the sole silver lining to the Covid pandemic was the rapid acceleration in demonstrating the safety and efficacy of mRNA-based vaccines. This technology has been in development for decades - which is why a Covid vaccine could be formulated so quickly - but the timescale for demonstrating real world success would have been much, much longer without the pressure of a global pandemic.
It’s exciting to see mRNA vaccines being tested to treat or prevent currently incurable diseases like HIV and certain cancers.
Maybe the sole silver lining to the Covid pandemic was the rapid acceleration in demonstrating the safety and efficacy of mRNA-based vaccines. This technology has been in development for decades - which is why a Covid vaccine could be formulated so quickly - but the timescale for demonstrating real world success would have been much, much longer without the pressure of a global pandemic.
It’s exciting to see mRNA vaccines being tested to treat or prevent currently incurable diseases like HIV and certain cancers.