{"id":132398,"date":"2020-12-12T00:56:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-developers-of-the-covid-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-12-12T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:56:31","slug":"the-developers-of-the-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-developers-of-the-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"#The developers of the COVID vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240a90583ca\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240a90583ca\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-developers-of-the-covid-vaccine\/#More_from\" >More from:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The developers of the COVID vaccine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"in-line-column wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div class=\"box module inline columnist desktop\">\n<div class=\"columnist-info\">\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_from\"><\/span>More from:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<picture class=\"columnist-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Really? Not the inventors of the COVID vaccine? A vaccine we were told was years away?<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, Time magazine\u2019s Person of the Year is a two-time presidential loser unenthusiastically put forward by his party as the best hope of unseating Donald Trump \u2014 and his running mate, at least a new face in national politics. (But she had to share.)<\/p>\n<p>As if we needed any more proof that most mainstream <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> outlets remain brainwashed by Trump Derangement Syndrome, it\u2019s the knee-jerk choice of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a ticket so unexciting that their predicted landslide never came to pass.<\/p>\n<p>In a year unlike any other \u2014 a global pandemic paralyzing the world, panic and fear our dominant emotions, a cratering economy, a generation of children suffering educational and psychological slides \u2014 it\u2019s a no-brainer as to 2020\u2019s undisputed heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Heroes, it should be noted, who are apolitical. Two scientists, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/14\/meet-the-scientist-couple-behind-90-effective-covid-19-vaccine\/\">the married Drs. Ugur Sahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcreci, who have yet to receive the global fame and recognition they so deserve. No one changed the world this year more than they have.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s Time magazine, a dinosaur even in virtue-signaling.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> warned that expecting a COVID vaccine within the year was unrealistic. In October, PBS reported that whatever vaccine the FDA fast-tracked wouldn\u2019t be effective enough.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here we are, about to emerge from this nightmare faster than expected. This vaccine is the equivalent of landing on the moon. What it means for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and progress is yet to be fully understood, but we have taken a quantum leap in beating back a novel pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Drs. Ugur Sahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcreci\" class=\"wp-image-16803921 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/scientists.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/scientists.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/scientists.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Drs. Ugur Sahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcreci<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Imago via ZUMA Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Millions of lives will be saved. The economy will recover. We will be able to hug again.<\/p>\n<p>Time announced their pick as the FDA considered final <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval for the coronavirus vaccine. How relevant they would have been in choosing Drs. Sahin and T\u00fcreci.<\/p>\n<p>But magazines are increasingly insignificant, and with this lame choice Time whistles past the graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>Sahin and T\u00fcreci began working on a vaccine for COVID in January, well before the world saw it as a true threat. But after reading one article in The Lancet on a Friday, Sahin showed up at work the following Monday with one mandate: stop everything and develop a COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Sahin was sure a global pandemic was coming, even though enough of his top scientists were doubtful enough to complain about canceling their vacations.<\/p>\n<p>By March, Sahin and T\u00fcreci\u2019s company BioNTech had 20 possible versions ready for testing.<\/p>\n<p>And their story has broader implications \u2014 hopeful, unifying ones. Sahin is a Turkish Muslim who partnered with Pfizer\u2019s Albert Bourla, a Greek \u2014 two immigrants whose native lands have long been at odds. Dr. T\u00fcreci, also Muslim, is the German-born daughter of a Turkish doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The couple married on a lunch break from the lab in 2002 and went on to have one daughter. Despite their wealth \u2014 becoming the first Germans of Turkish descent to make that country\u2019s version of the Forbes 100 \u2014 they live modestly, not even owning a car.<\/p>\n<p>Their vaccine, by the way, was discovered as part of their quest to cure cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Drs. Sahin and T\u00fcreci lead a team of scientists from 60 countries, half of whom are women. This team gave up holidays, days off, and mass transit in their attempt to build a vaccine in months \u2014 not years, as has been the norm. They called their project Lightspeed.<\/p>\n<p>We can look with hope to 2021, as well as to the eradication of other diseases, because of these doctors. As Sahin <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-a-couples-quest-to-cure-cancer-led-to-the-wests-first-covid-19-vaccine-11606905001\">told the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, this vaccine will \u201cusher in a whole new category of medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you want to know more about these people? Aren\u2019t they the world\u2019s heroes \u2014 not just America\u2019s? Wasn\u2019t one of the criticisms of Trump that he turned America inward, away from our allies, into a self-interested, bigoted, navel-gazing country? Why wouldn\u2019t Time then choose these Turkish-German-Muslim heroes?<\/p>\n<p>After all, the alt-right continues to rise in Germany, and immigration is as controversial there as here. The success of two immigrants, partnering with an American company to cure what currently ails mankind, is a prideful moment for us all. 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