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The last time world history was made in Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg was working on a printing press with movable type in a late medieval backyard.
This time, in the middle of the city, on a street with the auspicious name "An der Goldgrube", the candidate BNT162b2 is brooding behind security gates and disinfection barriers in a bioreactor: a "nucleoside-modified messenger RNA, encoded for an optimized Sars-CoV-2 spike- Full length glycoprotein ".
Probably the first regular corona vaccine in the world.
It was developed by Professor Dr.
Ugur Sahin together with his wife Özlem Türeci, both children of Turkish immigrants, a fantastic story in normal times, but negligible in the daily increasing global noise: how the second wave could still be stopped, the war against the pandemic could soon be over , won.
The brainless virus conquered by human genius.
The American president tweeted like this: "Every American will be able to get vaccinated by April."
But it's only that easy in Hollywood or on Twitter.
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