A little heart warming story and some national pride about the origins of the RNA vaccines
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/how-the-early-work-of-a-canadian-scientist-and-his-team-made-the-covid-19-vaccines-possible-1.5601481
Canadian scientist Ian MacLachlan has been watching the vaccine rollout with awe, knowing he and his team played a vital role in their development, which began decades ago.
“There's a part of me that is almost overwhelmed, how effective and powerful these vaccines have been,” MacLachlan told CTV News in an interview.
“There would be no mRNA vaccines without the LNP system that was developed right here in Canada.”
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Some people may distrust COVID-19 vaccines because they appear to come from huge corporations, but there are countless human beings behind these life-saving shots, he said.
MacLachlan urges Canadians to get their shot.
“At the end of the day, this technology was developed by young men and women scientists who really wanted to do what they could to help people,” he said.
“That's where it comes from. It doesn't come from some faceless multinational corporation. It's from the hearts and minds of people like myself, and hopefully that might help some Canadians.”
(Of course there are many more components to the vaccines)
