The biologist David Pulido He knew that his life was going to change forever on November 23, 2019, but he did not know to what extent. That day their first daughter, Gala, was born, today an eight-month-old girl with huge, attentive eyes. But that same day, according to some studies, one of the worst plagues suffered by humanity in the last century emerged on the other side of the planet: the new coronavirus. Pulido, a researcher at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), was then involved in developing a vaccine against malaria. In February, his bosses asked him to park everything and join an army of 250 scientists who have managed in record time to produce a promising experimental vaccine against the lethal virus that came into the world on the same day as his daughter.
