Hi, my wonderful sweet babies. It's Destin Choice, and you're listening to my podcast, Time Out with Choice.

Now, for today's podcast, I wanted to get on here and speak about the infamous situation regarding Dr. Kizzy Corbett.

Now, if you guys haven't heard of Dr. Kizzi Corbett, basically a lot of people are praising her for being Black Girl Magic.

And yes, black women saved the world and Black women saved society and Black women saved our democracy.

So, Megan Long was always short. She's one of the leading doctors for the COVID-19

vaccine.

So a lot of people are praising her because a lot of people are saying, oh wow, this is a huge

imprint, this is a huge blueprint.

Maybe this vaccine is safe after all.

She is being praised as one of the lead scientists behind Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.

Her name, Dr. Kizzy Corbett, and she is from here in the Triangle.

I talked with her former professor about her time at UNC and the impact that she is having.

By now, you may recognize her.

I was on Kizzi's thesis committee, and I taught her in class. It was clear from

early on when she started at UNC. She had the potential to make a real impact. Mark Heise is a

professor of genetics at UNC School of Medicine. He taught and worked with Kizzy Corbett, one of the

National Institutes of Health's

leading scientists behind the government's search for a vaccine. The Hillsboro native is part

of a team that worked with Moderna, the pharmaceutical company that developed one of the two vaccines.

She's a black woman, and she's young as well, only 34 years old. When you see that representation, what does that

do for the future of the vaccine? I think that's incredibly important. You know, it'd be one thing

for somebody like myself to say, you know, everybody should take the vaccine, which I truly believe,

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