Little funny sidenote: On the sign in front of the building (in the photo) is the address of the company. It translates to "At the goldmine" ;-)
That is funny, but so it's clear, it's the name of the street...nothing specific to BioNTech.
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#12Why is Pfizer always mentioned in the news when it is BioNTech and Pfizer is "just" a partner? Just as the Chinese drugmaker Fosun is. Sure credit goes to both but this "Dream Team" is BioNTech.
That was quite noticeable in english articles about the vaccine. In the German media either BioNTech or both are usually mentioned.
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#13This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants. In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated. It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.
Is that really relevant? Plenty of technological breakthroughs are made by immigrants/children of immigrants, and everyone on this site already knows this.
I think the point is that it should be mentioned in the media in general, not specifically here on HN.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that really relevant? Plenty of technological breakthroughs are made by immigrants/children of immigrants, and everyone on this site already knows this.
I think the point is that it should be mentioned in the media in general, not specifically here on HN.
Indeed. For bad news, e.g. crime, the (German) media takes great care to mention whether suspects or convicts are immigrants or of direct immigrant descent. Attaching this information to good news is done less frequently but would be required to paint a more realistic picture.
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#15This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants. In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated. It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.
Is that really relevant? Plenty of technological breakthroughs are made by immigrants/children of immigrants, and everyone on this site already knows this.
Yeah it's extremely relevant. Has never been more relevant. You have the American vice-president of a thoroughly racist administration claiming credit for this vaccine on Twitter, even though it was children of migrant workers in another country who actually did the science and all of the hard work. Credit where credit is due, especially since the ones who handed society this big win are from a marginalized and often unduly criticized background.
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#16This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants. In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated. It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.
The fact you're downvoted to grey saddens me. For heaven's sake this is a tech forum and especially us techies should very well know that immigration and open exchange of people and ideas is the key to success.
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#17there are many vaccines in trials. why is this one getting so much attention? american PR machine hard at work? sounds like they already have the movie plot perfected but they haven't published an article yet
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point is that it should be mentioned in the media in general, not specifically here on HN.
Indeed. For bad news, e.g. crime, the (German) media takes great care to mention whether suspects or convicts are immigrants or of direct immigrant descent. Attaching this information to good news is done less frequently but would be required to paint a more realistic picture.
Fear of Turkey joining the EU was a significant factor in the Brexit campaign:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-how-the...
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#19there are many vaccines in trials. why is this one getting so much attention? american PR machine hard at work? sounds like they already have the movie plot perfected but they haven't published an article yet
It's the first vaccine with preliminary results from a phase III trial. And the initial news are very good with 90% efficacy.
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#20This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants. In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated. It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.
I'm so proud of this as a turk living in EU.