The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 12月29日 11時55分

Dr. Barney S. Graham, the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH, studies how viruses cause disease. Working with Dr. Jason McLellan around 2017, he developed a MERS vaccine by modifying the virus’s so-called spike protein. The vaccine worked well in mice, and they were on the way to make a human version—but after MERS had killed hundreds of people, it petered out as an immediate threat to humans, and the research funding petered out, too. Then in January, 2020, Graham heard about a novel coronavirus that had emerged in Wuhan and called McLellan. “We got the [COVID-19 genome] sequences Friday night, the 10th of January,” Graham said. “We woke up on the 11th and started designing proteins.” Within days, they had designed the modified proteins and turned their scheme over to Moderna, for manufacturing. Six weeks later, Moderna began shipping vials of vaccine for clinical trials.

At the link in our bio, Lawrence Wright looks back at the yearlong COVID-19 catastrophe, and at the fatal missteps—and heroic efforts—that defined the U.S.’s response. Photo illustration by @tylercomrie; photograph by @nikolatamindzic for The New Yorker.

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