4.1 A modern miracle
Episode description
Did you know they had smallpox vaccines in the 1700s? Join us as we kick off season 4 of Face in Hat with some history and then an in-depth look at one of the most important modern miracles, the mRNA vaccine against Covid 19.
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The Plague Year: The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy, by Lawrence Wright
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year
Twitter thread by by Michael Harriot on Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and smallpox vaccinations in the 1700s
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1432060194276659203
Inoculation Origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation#Origins
The History of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, by Stanford T Shulman
https://www.nature.com/articles/pr200425/
Deseret Evening News | 1900-11-17 | To the Latter-Day Saints
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1906891&q=smallpox&parent_i=1906796
LDS Humanitarian Programs
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/humanitarian-service/church
LDS Church kicks in $20M toward global COVID vaccination push, by Peggy Fletcher Stack
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/02/26/lds-church-kicks-m-toward
2 Billion COVID-19 Vaccinations Roll out to At-Risk Populations Church donation helps support UNICEF’s role in global effort
The sprint to solve coronavirus protein structures — and disarm them with drugs, by Megan Scudellari
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01444-z
mRNA Vaccine (not mentioned on the show, but excellent :)
Why It Actually Took 50 Years to Make COVID mRNA Vaccines, SciShow, Hosted by: Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPeeCyJReZw
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: How could anything developed this quickly be safe? By Moon Nahm, M.D.
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines, by Elie Dolgin
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02483-w
How the vaccine works (Tik Tok)