THE INVENTOR OF THE COVID VACCINE

In 2020 in the middle of the Covid crisis, my mother called me and said she had been watching the interview of a certain Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna that was responsible for the  Moderna Covid vaccine. She immediately recognized the name Bancel and it reminded her of an experience she had with a former client of the High fashion designer Bruyere where she worked as a young girl of 16 or 17 during the war. The more she looked at that man on the TV screen, the more she was struck by his resemblance with her former client. There was something about his nose. She said, ''I have seen that nose before." Sure enough, that man is Madame Bancel's grandson. Here is the story my mom remembers: She was supposed to hand deliver by cab some clothes to Madame Bancel who lived on the Avenue d'Iena, one of the most prestigious and affluent districts in Paris. Coming from a very modest background and living in Maisons-Laffitte, my mother had never seen anything like Madame Bancel's apartment. My mom had not been able to do a lot of sightseeing in her youth because the war broke out in 1939. She had only visited the Chateau of Versailles. Entering the endless hallway, she was impressed by the numerous and huge bay windows overlooking the Eiffel Tower and the Seine river. She did not know that  some people could live in such a place.   Little did she know that, many, many years later, one of her customer's descendants would save the world from Covid by creating a badly needed vaccine.

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