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This 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.
This 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.
So if anything the German media needs to do a way better job of highlighting this.
Why 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.
In Germany, where BioNTech is based, news articles (or rather: German-language articles) either mention BioNTech exclusively or cite them as the primary player in the BioNTech / Pfizer partnership.
> even on the day of their wedding, both made time for lab work. This would be the definition of pure passion and what it takes to accomplish something like this. These people are a totally different breed compared to people I know. Kudos to them for their achievements.
I think it is great and I hope they get acknowledged for their work. Or anyone that tries to find solution to the current sorry state.
This is a monster, monster opportunity and just 'existing' won't leverage it to the extent they can - it will help them fund, hire more, expand more, do more of what they are doing.
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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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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...
Don't member states have veto powers?
Why 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.
Probably because Pfizer has a big PR department to ensure exactly this.
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Fear of Turkey joining the EU was a significant factor in the Brexit campaign: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-how-the...
And now with Turkey vs France thingy, it seems pretty unreasonable to think that turkey would really join right? Don't member states have veto powers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur...
The headquarter of their company is only 10 miles from my home, in a university town, full of young people. So blessed that maybe a part of the solution to this crisis comes from "my" region.