Bravo and congratulations! I too find the 25.000 a very small sum for what she accomplished, but that was the sum of the prize money. This was surely only the first acknowledgment of her brilliant scientific career.

Good work by this young lady, BUT why don't we wait and see if this actually is or leads to a 'cure' for COVID before we let our imaginations run wild. Remember Theranos? People were so eager to say: "This young woman solved a huge problem!!!!" - that they didn't stop to ask if that person, Elizabeth Holmes, actually had done anything. I'm assuming this teenage girl doesn't have the con-artist-intentions and egomaniacal delusions that Elizabeth Holmes had. It could turn out that she's really onto something. But remember what the WSJ journalist, John Carreyrou, said, about what led to his reporting that exposed Elizabeth Holmes: that he read The New Yorker's breathless coverage of Elizabeth Holmes' supposed scientific breakthrough, and that he found it doubtful that a very young person had turned out to know some aspect of science so much better than all of the deeply experienced scientists who had studied it. The same point applies here. Is it likely the COVID cure will come from a middle school student? Have other major scientific discoveries ever come from someone that young? Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Van Leeuwenhoek, Kepler, Faraday, Einstein, Rosalind Franklin and Watson and Crick, Marie Curie, Jennifer Doudna and Emanuelle Charpentier - none of them made their major discoveries and insights at 14. All were well into adulthood with years, in some cases decades, of diligent scientific higher learning under their belts when they found breakthroughs that changed the world. Still, it's nonetheless a possibility that this girl has discovered something major, but don't jump to sweeping conclusions just b/c you have some yearning to see 'girls in science!!!!'

We've been told countless times that coronaviruses do not compare to flu viruses, yet here we are applying a flu vaccine method to Covid? I don’t get it.

This girl's discovery led to that Pfirzer vaccine right? Everyone better answer yes, or you're against girls being in science!!!!!!

To all those saying that the companies should be paying her way more, maybe switch it around and say "3m only paid 25,000 for this so they should be held responsible for giving it away for free"? Maybe stop this mindset of making people go bankrupt for healthcare

That's amazing! Congratulations to her.

All you need now is a president who has respect for scientists, women, coloured people and, well, anyone else at all.