A teenage girl in Texas is getting national recognition for her work on a potential treatment for COVID-19 … and she’s already getting paid.
Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old freshman at Independence High School in Frisco, is being hailed as the country’s top young scientist … and she won $25,000 for her potential coronavirus breakthrough.
Anika won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her hard work identifying a potential drug to treat COVID-19. The brilliant student says she developed — while in the 8th grade — a molecule that binds to a protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and essentially stops the virus from functioning. A brilliant discovery for an adult, much less a kid.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/16/texas-teen-wins-prize-developing-potential-covid-19-treatment/