In my father’s printing shop in Bologna, we understood that a page is only as reliable as the press that produces it. If the machine is misaligned, the truth becomes a smudge.
The market’s reaction to Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma—a spectacular 177% surge in Moderna’s stock, according to CNBC—is pure adrenaline.
I’ve spent my life scoring things in payroll. I track whether a promise lands on a spreadsheet: who gets hired, at what wage, and if the work remains there five years from now.
The details are always the same when Washington decides to play God with basic medicine. First, there’s the technological breakthrough—in this case, Moderna's mFlusiva, an mRNA-based flu vaccine.
The news cycle has an alarming habit: when a deadly pathogen flares up in the Global South, the response is not measured competence but breathless technological pronouncements.