by Roberto — Yes­ter­day, when I walked into the cor­ner phar­macy to re­ceive my COVID-19 vac­cine "booster" I once again mar­veled at this truly re­mark­able sci­en­tific achieve­ment. Less than a year af­ter the se­quence of the novel SARS-CoV‑2 virus was made pub­lic, the pub­lic at large be­gan re­ceiv­ing mRNA vac­cines.