The husband-and-wife team behind the COVID vaccine

The husband-and-wife team behind the COVID vaccine: Two years ago, Ugur Sahin founded his company BioNTech with his wife, Dr. Özlem Türeci. It was mostly focused on cancer treatments. It had never brought a product to market. Covid-19 did not yet exist. On Monday, BioNTech and Pfizer announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus developed by Dr. Sahin and his team was more than 90% effective. Meet the scientists behind the breakthrough.(The New York Times)

“Trust and personal relationship is so important in such business, because everything is going so fast."

 

The modern-day Curies. I smell a Nobel Prize!! Well-deserved.

 

THEY R TURKISH TEAM ... WOW

 

When it's good news they're considered Turkish. When it's bad news they're called German.

 

well Pfizer will make the money in the end

 

90% is based on 94 cases...nice

 

Why is that the case, considering that Turks and Turkey have bad images in the world today?

 

Speaking of Turkey... There was a study of Quercetin done by a Turkish doctor on 50 subjects that ended in August. Since no result has been posted, I emailed the doctor and he actually answered back. Yes, Quercetin is good as prophylactic against Covid, the study is under review. I am curious about the actual numbers.

I don't understand why it takes so long to come up with the result (they started to take Q. in March), but at least somebody did a study on a cheap supplement.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04377789

 

I thought it's the other way around.