The mRNA technology that helped end the COVID-19 pandemic may now hold the key to defeating cancer, and it exists because of President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed.

Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Florida recently reported that lung and skin cancer patients who received COVID-19 mRNA vaccines alongside standard immunotherapy lived nearly twice as long as those who received immunotherapy alone. The vaccines appeared to “retrain” patients’ immune systems to recognize and attack tumors, a finding some scientists are calling the first step toward a universal cancer vaccine.

If a cancer vaccine ultimately succeeds, we’ll have Trump to thank. During his term, scientists, manufacturers and regulators worked to deliver mRNA vaccines in seven months, saving millions

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