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2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I don't think that's it. This mRNA technology has been in the works for nearly twenty years now. Money and politics are more likely to figure into these decisions. 

Apparently Pfizer claims they have the ability to adjust the RNA within 100 days..but I think the fact that it wasn't fully approved till recently is why they couldn't formulate the vaccine like the flu shot.

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5 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

Apparently Pfizer claims they have the ability to adjust the RNA within 100 days..but I think the fact that it wasn't fully approved till recently is why they couldn't formulate the vaccine like the flu shot.

I don't think so, at least from what I have read from other virologists. From what I have read they made the choice not to formulate it this way from the get-go. I doubt that FDA approval had anything to do with this since they already had emergency authorization.

What full FDA approval really did was give the federal government the authority to mandate it, rather than have it be taken solely on a voluntary basis.

I really think many of these pharmaceutical companies didn't believe that this virus would adapt so efficiently. They seemed to treat COVID-19 as though it would behave more like other coronaviruses like MERS, which were deadly but not as ruthlessly efficient in its transmission ability.

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14 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

The only thing that surprises me about this is the length of time it took to get to this point.

 

You're not kidding. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this as time goes on.

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Not sure how reliable this is, but according to a non peer reviewed study, the suggestion is to do a vaccine of the original version SARS virus instead of doing RNA adaptations of the current vaccine.

Apparently the theory is that this will be more effective against variants.

And it was stupid of scientists not to assume covid would mutate.  It's a virus and a virus always can mutate especially with all the social distancing, mask wearing, and spreading it has been doing for 18+ months.  It adapted itself so it could work around some of the safety measures, and also being in so many people..it learned how to infect quicker.

 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/vaccination-gives-hybrid-immunity-to-recovered-covid-19-patients#Future-pandemic-threats

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26 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

And it was stupid of scientists not to assume covid would mutate.  It's a virus and a virus always can mutate especially with all the social distancing, mask wearing, and spreading it has been doing for 18+ months.  

That's what I've said all along. Viruses mutate - that's what they do!

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Greg Abbott is playing hardball. Florida and Texas in a race to the bottom as usual.

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4 hours ago, sivad40 said:

Greg Abbott is playing hardball. Florida and Texas in a race to the bottom as usual.

He's a fool, plain and simple. A heartless fool who would rather cater to wealthy donors than actually try to prevent his own citizens from becoming potentially deathly ill. 😡😡😡😡😡

3 hours ago, dragonflies said:

 

This is the best line of the year. I hope it shut that bigmouth up (but it probably didn't).

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Good for you!  I would have had mine by now but Moderna has yet to be approved for boosters.

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Just now, Ponds said:

Good for you!  I would have had mine by now but Moderna has yet to be approved for boosters.

My folks are in the same boat. Hopefully, there will be an announcement soon. I feel grateful that at my job we had Pfizer.

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