Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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The logic! Moderna's Omicron-specfic vaccine candidate doesn't work therefore we don't need Omicron-specfic vaccines.
solarz
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I noticed they didn't mention what the effective rate was.
"This is very, very good news," Daniel Douek, a vaccine researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who co-lead the study, said in a telephone interview.
"It means we don't need to radically redesign the vaccine to make it an Omicron vaccine."
I thought the whole point of mRNA was that you didn't need to redesign the vaccine for a new variant?
It seems to me that they are giving up at this point and want to spin their failure off as a success instead.
It's the same way no economist ever predicted a recession or market shrinking before it happens.
Most likely the outcome would be the same. Chances are that an inactivated, viral vector or protein subunit vaccine would not stop the contagion but will still reduce percentage of infections and overall hospitalizations.
The real failure here is that by not bringing mRNA patents to the public domain, other countries are not able to produce mRNA vaccines to control the spread in other areas in the world. That in addition to the bureaucracy to get them approved, diplomatic negotiations, the cost of the vaccines, the still limited production and hoarding of the developed world, means other nations cannot get the vaccines in time. This is greatly worsened with the media brainwash that paints mRNA vaccines as the only viable alternative when it is not. This means countries and their people are waiting for their mRNA vaccines when they could have been inoculated faster, sooner and cheaper with other forms of vaccines. This only serves to cause the infection to spread faster than they should. It is because we cannot get vaccines in time for other countries is why we have a Delta and an Omicron wave, and it will not end there.
The key to stop variants is to stop Long Covid. Breakthrough infection with vaccination which results in self isolation for a week or short hospital stay is not likely to produce new variants. But those with prolonged sickness in the hospital or at home is likely incubate new variants in their body with the amount of time the virus is allowed to mutate.
Patents for inactivated, viral vector and protein subunit vaccines have long expired and its possible for other countries to produce them now. Even Cuba can make protein subunit vaccines. It is shown that protein subunit can match the efficacy of mRNA in earlier tests, and Sputnik V --- unfortunately poorly marketed --- a viral vector vaccine, has also shown it can match those effiicacies, showing the potential of viral vector when done right.
@Tyler, I want to mark the event and keep a record in this thread, just in case if you want to brag about the advantage of mRNA again.
BTW, are you going to keep your share? Or find a new job?
