BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by Mikeb85 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:42AM (#28130215)

> BioNTech has a lot of potentially groundbreaking mRNA therapies in its pipeline, some of them against various forms of cancer.

This is good news. In the last year I've lost 2 close ones to cancer.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by inglor_cz on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:55AM (#28130396)

For me, too.

In my family, we rarely suffer from heart attacks and we only had one dead in last 40 years or so that died from cardiovascular disease. He was a heavy smoker and his non-smoking brother outlived him by almost thirty years.

But cancer is our faithful family enemy, even though it mostly comes late in life. Every tool against it will meet my approval.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by Mikeb85 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:01PM (#28130481)

Thankfully cancer doesn't run in my family, but somehow (bad luck I guess) I have lost a shocking amount of young friends or acquaintances to cancer now (all 40 years or younger). All were very healthy too (none were smokers, heavy drinkers, etc...).

I'm dreading hearing about more cases since Covid restrictions included delaying a lot of cancer screenings.

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