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We received a bit of good news this week when pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced that their recent COVID-19 vaccine trial was looking particularly promising.
They and their partner, BioNTech, claimed that the vaccine was 90% effective.
At the same time, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co. has developed an experimental antibody that could prevent patients exhibiting mild symptoms from worsening to the point of hospitalisation.
The treatment has been authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration and will go a long way towards helping prevent COVID-19-related deaths.
Then there’s the name of the treatment, the only explanation for which is that someone’s cat ran over their keyboard.
I give you…bamlanivimab.
This, says Mashable, quickly caught the attention of Twitter users:
whoa black betty
bamlanivimab
whoa black betty
bamlanivimab
black betty had a virus
bamlanivimab
damn thing was inside us
bamlanivimab https://t.co/7axKjmQfJV— adrian 2: still postin’ (@CrawfinUSA) November 10, 2020
the B in LBGTQ stands for bamlanivimab
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) November 10, 2020
why the hell would you come this close to a palindrome and choke right at the end??? bamlanivinalmab, motherfuckers https://t.co/gSa8rrfHRX
— Dan Kois (@dankois) November 10, 2020
if you’re lost you can look and you will find me
bamlanivimab— hingo (@hingo) November 10, 2020
side effects of bamlanivimab may include rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong, and in rare cases shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
— Duncan Carson (@aduncancarson) November 10, 2020
“I put my thang down flip it and reverse it, it’s your bamlanivimab, it’s your bamlanivimab” https://t.co/lf37M8t3p7
— Robin Thede (@robinthede) November 10, 2020
And my personal favourite:
So cool of them to let this cat name the new covid antibody treatment #bamlanivimab pic.twitter.com/7tMyyfJPMw
— Chris Ryan
(@HiChrisRyan) November 10, 2020
You can scroll through more memes here.
The internet really can be a wonderful place sometimes.
[source:mashable]
