Orange County native Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett honored in TIME Magazine for COVID 19 vaccine breakthrough
A Black woman from Orange County will go down in history for leading the effort to solve this global Pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci called her a "rising star" of the Vaccine Research Center's coronavirus team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Corbett's work also led to the development of the Eli Lilly therapeutic monoclonal antibody treatment that now has emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. "Her work will have a substantial impact on ending the worst respiratory-disease pandemic in more than 100 years," Fauci said in an article for TIME Magazine. Corbett was w...
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