I've been making TikToks since the start of the pandemic as a creative outlet. Has making explainer videos been something you've been into for a while, or did you just start with this one? There was a fork on my table where I was writing the skit, and that clicked for me.
So I was doing a lot of research on the vaccine, and the key component to it was the spike protein. How did you come up with the idea of "fork hands" to represent the coronavirus spike protein? I knew there was a lot of fear and misinformation about the vaccine, so I wanted to show in an entertaining way that this vaccine is not what they thought and ease their minds. NPR editor Suzette Lohmeyer caught up with the 32-year-old tech expert by day, videographer by night, to ask him a few questions about his video, which took just two days to film and edit but has garnered more than 6 million views on TikTok alone according to Fast Company. The best part: Krishna works at NPR as a development and operations engineer based in New York City. If you can find a better way to explain why putting messenger RNA into a cell so it will make an antigen that will prompt the generation of neutralizing antibodies that will protect someone from COVID-19, I'd love to see it.
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