Immigrants are the COVID-19 Vaccine Heroes

“If COVID-19 vaccines bring an end to the pandemic, America has immigrants to thank,” Joel Rose reports for NPR, noting the contributions immigrants have made to the fight against the virus. Rose points to people like Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian immigrant and senior vice president at BioNTech who pioneered the use of messenger RNA technology — which is now the basis for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. “Karikó is one of several foreign-born scientists and entrepreneurs involved in the covid vaccine breakthrough, including Moderna’s Canadian co-founder, Patrick Rossi, and French CEO, Stéphane Bancel,” David C. Adams writes for Univision.

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