[conspire] COVID-19 "breakthrough" infections

[Mike Higashi]

n Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 4:26 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> The Pfizer and Moderna messenger-RNA-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2
> are amazingly, miraculously effective (even more than the
> still-impressive J&J Janssen vaccine) -- and the Trump Administration
> taskforce deserves some credit for facilitating the historically quick
> development and deployment.  (A significant factor in that breathtaking
> progress, however, is that work done years ago for SARS and MERS could
> be re-used verbatim without needing to re-do it for SARS-CoV-2, saving a
> lot of time.)



The January 4/11 issue of The New Yorker had a long-form (40 page) article,
"The Plague Year", by staff writer and novelist Lawrence Wright.

Among the details it provides:

On January 10th of last year, a Chinese scientist uploaded the SARS-CoV-2
genome to the Internet. On January 11th, NIAID's chief vaccine researcher
Barney Graham and his collaborator, structural biologist Jason McLellan of
UT Austin, went to work, modifying their previous MERS vaccine. On January
13th, they delivered their scheme to Moderna for production.

BTW, the author's most recent novel, The End of October (Knopf, 2020), is
about a pandemic.

Mike
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