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Here we are, just a year after the first news of the coronavirus we now call SARS-CoV-2 and the global pandemic known as COVID-19… and scientists have already developed more than one safe & effective vaccine. How did they do that so quickly? I visited the lab whose work directly led to these first COVID vaccines, so you can learn how basic research connects to life-saving medicine. This is how to make a COVID-19 vaccine.

Coronavirus animation courtesy of: Janet Iwasa, University of Utah, with funding from the NSF, the Coronavirus Structural Task Force and the German Federal Ministery of Research

References:
Wrapp, D. et al. Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation. Science 367, 1260–1263 (2020) doi: 10.1126/science.abb2507

Watanabe, Y., Allen, J. D., Wrapp, D., McLellan, J. S. & Crispin, M. Site-specific glycan analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike. Science eabb9983 (2020) doi:10.1126/science.abb9983.

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48 thoughts on “Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine | Only Sports And Health

  1. This video tells a part of the vaccine story few people get to see. Vaccines aren't miracles. They are the products of research, curiosity, and the hard work of scientists.
    Follow me on Instagram and Twitter and let me know what you thought of this video! @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart

  2. The last thing scientists want to do, is copy the Chinese sars2 genome (uploaded to genbank) on January 10, 2020 and then go into production on January 13, 2020 which is exactly what moderna did.

  3. When people go to a pharmacy to get, say, moderna "vaccine" they are not informed as to the ingredients in the injectable. That is intentionally withheld as moderna does not publish their mRNA "spike" protein sequence. Therefore the patient can not give proper consent to accept the injectable.

  4. My name is farshare Ayubi I'm the scientist we're making onavirus team I'm creative coronavirus I know about a lot of horoscope let's coronavirus in for the example a final car named car if I know kinda sky and the score on a vaccine only one mosquito this is nothing and government don't want to pay me I will never make it nothing for government if government pay me I make a stuff so no 1 I never thinking not don't know the name even today it's an amazing do they make it I make it the Nick In my I'm fixing the everything Is brothers people to pay me

  5. So a vaccine is basically a simulation of an infection, kind of like how in the military they have obstacle courses with people firing blanks to simulate actual combat.

  6. Really ? I can't see that working . How can the body get used to something that doesn't have a negative effect ? Surely getting slightly sick is part if the vaccination process . Which is going to require . The whole virus . But, just in a small dose . So the body does not get overwhelmed ?

    I can't see this working at all.
    What if Coviid19 is a very confusing science name for Flu. Or Influenza. (FLU AND influenza are the same thing).
    Perhaps, folks got confused by this complicated word. Like, overhearing a conversation on cow experts talking about Red Devons. (Red Devon , is a type of cow).

    So folks be like : oh wow, there's a new breed of virus out there.
    And, like China are the enemy as, they're Communists . So , it must be their fault as their Philosophy is different to ours. Or, at least our Leaders.

    So people think that the new Red Devon crossed with , like. A Frisian. Is like a big issue.

    Yet, consistently the traditional saying is. "Gosh , the first cold snap in winter and it's too much for some of The Old Folks. They all die off as soon as it gets cold !"

    Yet someone, kind of twisted it a bit. Plus the symptoms of, perhaps someone having a cold or the flu are described.

    Peeps be like. "HA , YOU WIMP. Why were you off work ?"
    Answer : " I had MAN FLU ! "

    Or, like folks now, be too polite to talk in a negative way about homosexuality these days for fear of being name called with.
    Homophobic.
    Or Antivaxer.

    When clearly. Vaccine = Good thing.
    To be Anti vax = evil

    Yet you say. Anti Mercury Vaccination.
    Anti Nonsense Vaccines !
    Anti , waste of money vaccine that doesn't work !

  7. So it’s the Chinese that « found » the genome of the vaccine and all you guys trusted that and took the vaccine without asking questions. The Chinese let me say it again the Chinese that found the genome the CHINESE from CHINA

  8. Man, are you a prime example of the Dunning Kruger Effect. Sheesh. Let's just believe the Chinese Communist Party, huh? Download the CCP sequence and start developing something to inject into yourselves. Agh. 🤦

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