Llamas and the Search for a Coronavirus Vaccine

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Edward Hessler

Ogden Nash was noted for his whimsical verse. Perhaps the most well known of all of them is The Llama.

The Llama
The one-l lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l lama
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l-llama.

I hadn't known anything about the value of llamas to viral research until I stumbled across this video (7m 23s) from the New Yorker on their role in the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

Two of the Belgian scientists involved in this research describe their work and also nicely cover the territory of vaccine research and development. It also includes a transcript of the conversation.