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let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

Lindsay Wiley@lindsaywiley.bsky.social

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

that is because 1.) mRNA platform allows for this by its nature (long explanation) 2.) the part where they already knew how to modify the spike protein from previous research. so because of decades of research already funded and done