Member-only story
What Subjects Do You Need to Understand So You Can Understand the mRNA Vaccine?
Many concepts you learned in school — but have probably forgotten — have come together to begin the end of the pandemic
When I was about to graduate from college with a degree in medical technology (MT), the MT (now CLS) program held a small ceremony to celebrate the accomplishment of those of us who made it through the program. It was a tough program, with any score under 75% being an F and a minimum of a B grade in all courses being required to pass. If you failed a course, you had to start the program all over again, and you only got one chance to do that re-start. There were plenty of people — some of them very bright — who did not make it through the program at all.
During that ceremony, a pathologist from the local county hospital delivered the keynote address. All of us had worked with him, sitting across from him and looking into the microscope as he showed us all sorts of interesting slides from all sorts of interesting tissue samples. In that keynote address, he told us that we would never see the world the same because we’ve seen through the microscope. Because we’ve seen a cell and all of its components, we would come to understand human disease and the suffering it brings.
