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I don't believe the most recent vaccine released is fully up to date with the most recent ascendant variants. Unfortunately, even with the increased speed of conception and production that mRNA vaccines allow, large-scale viral pathogens still manage to mutate at a faster rate.
If the rate of spread was reduced through other measures than just vaccinations, we'd have a better capability to create up to date versions in time to be relevant.
But we're not doing any such measures, are we?
They found a universal antibody for all COVID strains a while ago.
Puts on tinfoil hat
Considering this research was published a year and a half ago, is any of it going into actual vaccine production? I feel like big pharma loves the idea of needing yearly or bi-yearly covid vaccines far more than the idea of a single vaccine that provides universal antibodies.
A typical vaccine development timeline takes 5 to 10 years, and sometimes longer
Removes tinfoil hat
That makes sense! Hopefully this will allow the Covid vaccine to become a normal single inoculation we can add to our list of “viruses we’ve all but ended”
Nice! Though is that included in the most recent booster?
I don't think that one is available yet, but it could mean an end to this game of covid strain whack-a-mole.
Overall people actually need to get the booster to build immunity. And just because you're vaccinated doesn't mean you won't get sick at all. That's not how this works.
Lol clown shoes
Yes, they updated the vaccine so you get covid from it. It is made by EA now and published by bethesda.
You know that vaccine (including mRNA one) works by exposing you to the pathogen and it is still your immune system that fights it?
BTW: I don't hear this being mentioned anywhere, but we already have a traditional covid vaccine called Novavax.
mRNA vaccines do not contain or expose you to the pathogen.
They are like subunit vaccines with one extra step. I should probably not use the word pathogen as it is just a part of the virus.
That's not how mRNA vaccines work. In fact, most modern vaccines don't work that way. You're referring to inoculation which is distinct from vaccination.
An mRNA vaccine works like a special set of instructions that tells your body how to make a pretend piece of a germ, but without using any real germ parts. Your body makes, then sees this pretend piece and learns how to protect you against the real germ. It's like teaching your body to recognize and fight the germ without ever having to meet it for real.
Remember the COVID spike proteins? That's what the vaccine is teaching your body about, not any actual viruses.
I am familiar with that, but if you start taking this way with antivaxxers you will lose them. This is just an implementation detail, the vaccines in one way or the other expose your immune system to the pathogen so you have opportunity to learn to fight it.
We have:
The idea is always to teach your immune system to fight it, before we get the real thing. I don't get why I was down voted to hell.
NovaVax has been so frustrating for me! Each shot is always approved like a month after the equivalent Pfizer/Moderna, sometimes multiple months. And by the time it's finally approved, it's always been past the window in which I needed to get vaccinated.
I finally managed to get it this year - but only because I was sick with parainfluenza and everything got pushed back two weeks. If that hadn't happened, I would've had to go with Moderna again.