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No COVID-19 vaccination breakthrough awarded?



The ones most likely to receive the prize isn't that old yet, also since the DDT scandal they do prefer to wait a bit to hedge on delivering prize before side-effects are known (Often one wishes the ones awarding the peace prize had kept that in mind).


TIL

> Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods".


The lobotomy guy too was awarded the prize I think.


Wait another 30 years, it would be hailed a miracle just like the small-pox vaccine. Like they say, the victors (re)write the history.




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