4.1 A modern miracle

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. Link to new Face in Hat discord server! https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh 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 https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/blogs/2-billion-covid-19-vaccinations-roll-out-at-risk-populations 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 :) https://xkcd.com/2425/ 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. https://www.uab.edu/news/youcanuse/item/12059-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-how-could-anything-developed-this-quickly-be-safe The tangled history of mRNA vaccines, by Elie Dolgin https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02483-w How the vaccine works (Tik Tok) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OmQp6GNJSQ