Highpoints of 2020: The Most Inspiring Immigrants of 2020

Nurses, doctors and medical staff at an NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan medical facility.  PACIFIC PRESS/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES

Let's close the book on a rotten 2020 on a positive note.

Stuart Anderson for Forbes highlights "The Most Inspiring Immigrants of 2020."  It truly is inspiring.

Immigrants Playing Role in the Covid-19 Vaccine

Individual	Affiliation	Where Immigrated From
Charles Pfizer	Founder of Pfizer	Germany
Albert Bourla	CEO of Pfizer	Greece
Katalin Karikó	Sr. V.P. BioNTech	Hungary
Dr. Ugur Sahin	Founder of BioNTech	Turkey (to Germany)
Dr. Özlem Türeci	Founder of BioNTech	Daughter of Turkish Immigrants to Germany
Noubar Afeyan	Chairman and Cofounder of Moderna	Lebanon and Canada
Derrick Rossi	Cofounder of Moderna	Canada
Stéphane Bancel	CEO of Moderna	France
Tal Zaks	Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer	Israel
Marcello Damiani	Moderna's Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer	France
Juan Andres	Moderna’s Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer	Spain

 

The Doctors and Nurses Who Gave Their Lives: More than 28% of physicians (281,000) and 15% of registered nurses (570,000) in America are foreign-born, according to a National Foundation for American Policy report. The sacrifices of native-born and immigrant health care professionals have been the backbone of the country’s response to Covid-19. “Nearly a third of the nurses who've died of coronavirus in the U.S. are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide,” according to CNN.

KJ