This is not your father’s vaccine. Forget polio, chicken pox, yellow fever – even flu vaccines. The Coronavirus vaccines are like no other—and that, in part, is why they were developed so quickly. “These are totally different than the vaccines we’ve had in the past,” according to Rad Moeller, a rheumatologist practicing with CarolinaEast Internal Medicine at Havelock and president-elect of the North Carolina Rheumatology Association. Vaccines work by introducing the virus they are aimed to fight into your bloodstream. The earliest vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. Smallpox was ravaging Europe and America – a virus with a 30 percent kill rate. Survivors – George Washington was one – were left with scars as a memento of their deadly battle. Jenner noticed that farm girls in the country were somehow evading the deadly disease and realized they were developing immunity by association with cowpox – a virus similar to smallpox but not nearly so deadly and carried by cows.