SHOUTOUT TO HENRIETTA LACKS — the African American woman whose cervical cancer cells were the first to be immortalized [HeLa cells] and are responsible for SO MANY medical discoveries. An underrecognized, impoverished mother of 5 who continuously impacts our world. THANK YOU🙏🏻
The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it works so I’m going to try my best here in this thread while I’m waiting for a patient to show.