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Suppression of RNA Recognition by Toll-like Receptors: The Impact of Nucleoside Modification and the Evolutionary Origin of RNA (sciencedirect.com)

This is the paper that lead directly to the mRNA technology underlying both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines. Talk of a Nobel Prize has started.

"This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants...."

This paper is, quite possibly, the best argument of all time for supporting federal spending on basic scientific research. The entire world is aware of the benefit the research produced.

Whatever we're spending on basic research isn't enough. Figure out how to pay for it...and triple it.

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posted by matt in Wednesday, March 3, 2021

CVS Health, Walgreens start to provide Covid vaccines at thousands of hard-hit nursing homes (cnbc.com)

Ohio is one of the pioneers here! First jabs for nursing home residents are supposed to rollout starting today.

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posted by matt in Friday, December 18, 2020

US allows emergency COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic (apnews.com)

US allows emergency COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic

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posted by matt in Friday, December 11, 2020

FDA chief says agency will quickly approve Pfizer's Covid vaccine for emergency use (cnbc.com)

Approval is days, maybe hours, away. First vaccinations will likely happen early next week.

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posted by matt in Friday, December 11, 2020

US regulators post positive review of Pfizer vaccine data (apnews.com)

Meanwhile, in the United States, FDA published its preliminary analysis of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine two days ahead of the scheduled meeting of the review panel. Our V-day is coming.

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posted by matt in Tuesday, December 8, 2020

‘Route out’ of pandemic: UK gives 1st COVID-19 vaccine doses (apnews.com)

V-day has arrived in Europe. The first "out of trial" vaccine recipient in the UK was Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week. The annals of trivia may pay more attention to the second recipient, though. His name is William Shakespeare.

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posted by matt in Tuesday, December 8, 2020

'This is going to be challenging:' How the UK will roll out Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine (cnbc.com)

Next challenge on the vaccine front: logistics.

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posted by matt in Thursday, December 3, 2020

Pfizer and BioNTech request emergency authorization from FDA for Covid vaccine (cnbc.com)

And now the review....

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posted by matt in Friday, November 20, 2020

‘We could effectively end this pandemic in 2021' with Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines (cnbc.com)

Gottleib is a former FDA Commissioner, very cautious by nature, and on the Board at Pfizer. His statement this morning, following Moderna's announcement, is significant.

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posted by matt in Monday, November 16, 2020