Commentary: NIH's Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is my COVID-19 heroine

Posted Jun 22, 2021
Experts on television issued gloomy predictions that it would take two years or longer to create a COVID vaccine. At a lab deep inside the National Institutes of Health, the world’s preeminent medical research center just seven miles north of Washington, D.C., viral immunologist and UNC alum Kizzmekia Corbett was too busy to heed the doomsayers. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)

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