157 pointsby coloneltcb3 hours ago20 comments
  • squeedlesan hour ago
    Manufacturing matters, and six years ago, I said that one side effect from the pandemic is that mRNA technology, which had been lab-scale stuff, suddenly had dump-trucks full of money appearing to help them scale their manufacturing.

    They apparently settled on the the sequences for the original covid vacs in a weekend. Going from that design to billions of doses is one of the hardest things to do, but once done, will persist. And it is ready to be deployed for the next hundred applications that we find for this.

    Flu vaccines is an obvious application, since the prior egg-based manufacturing required about six months lead time and millions of eggs, but nobody wanted to invest in anything better.

  • swingboyan hour ago
    Serious question in good faith: what was the deal with the “calamari” (clots?) the anti-vax crowd kept talking about being found in the veins/arteries of folks who took the Covid vaccine?
    • Torn40 minutes ago
      > Now an international team, led by Flinders University, have found that in a small number of people, the immune system can accidentally confuse a normal adenovirus protein with a human blood protein termed platelet factor 4 (or PF4).

      Seems to have been a legitimate, very rare, side effect

      https://www.flinders.edu.au/research/articles/covid-vaccine-...

      • tjohns35 minutes ago
        It's worth clarifying that the adenovirus-based (viral vector) vaccines that article is discussing were a completely different technology from the mRNA vaccines.
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    • wetpawsan hour ago
      Nothingburger like pretty much everything that antivaxers talk about
      • dehrmann21 minutes ago
        Dismissing people like this is part of what fuels the antivax movement. Vaccines are generally effective, but they're not perfect and have side effects, and failing to acknowledge that when someone is asking in in good faith polarizes people and makes it look like someone's trying to hide something.
        • Schiendelman11 minutes ago
          It was a nothingburger. It wasn't even a side effect of the mRNA vaccines.

          You don't have to care about the people who aren't interested in science. Sure, you have to protect immunocompromised people from those people, and we can do that.

    • cedws43 minutes ago
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      • wbl7 minutes ago
        Not "the vaccines" only adenovirus vector based ones and the vaccines were dropped from use pretty quickly once the safety signal was detected.
      • Waterluvian29 minutes ago
        Society is the trolley problem. The balancing act between individual and collective rights is the lever being thrown every time we pass a law or make a regulation.

        I can absolutely empathize though. It really is fucked up to experience it in the extreme. Usually the trade-offs are much more minor or have a big time delay or are more abstract.

      • throwaway575214 minutes ago
        This was very uncommon. It was also unrelated to mRNA vaccines, it was the AstroZeneca vaccine vaxzevria, and it was based on an adenovirus.
        • cedws7 minutes ago
          I know that it was uncommon but that's not the point. Imagine if you had lost a son or daughter due to this. You thought you were doing the right thing for your child, you did what you were told to do. They died, and now you can't even sue the manufacturer. The UK compensated some families £120k under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, but would that be enough for you to accept the loss of a loved one?
          • nxc18a minute ago
            Seatbelts and airbags sometimes kill people, too. Sometimes people die in unlucky ways.
  • doginasuit2 hours ago
    I'm not sure this information will sway very many people. I have relatives who are all getting tested for t-cell counts related to mRNA because they are convinced they are the cause of any and all health problems they are facing. It seems like the medical professionals who are administering the tests are at least somewhat responsible for their misapplication.
    • Schiendelman12 minutes ago
      It's not about swaying individuals. Let people believe their stupid stuff.

      It's about swaying investors and regulators. And yeah, we need to make sure we excise our regulators of crazy people, but that's cyclic. And next cycle, we'll get vaccines for a lot more.

    • tomescoan hour ago
      Information won’t sway someone who’s views aren’t based on information.
      • binarycrusader20 minutes ago
        What’s the saying?

        You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.

    • epistasis2 hours ago
      It's so funny how there's this irrational mRNA skepticism combined with irrational peptide trust.

      Grifters like RFK Jr and the supplement charlatans are cashing in on the lies they perpetuate.

      • javea71an hour ago
        I think you'll find there's a rational distrust in big pharma
        • babypuncher28 minutes ago
          Two things can be true: Big Pharma can be evil, and their products are much better vetted for safety and efficacy than random peptides sourced form mystery factories.
          • vlian208821 minutes ago
            and do you really think a significant percentage of forced vaccination detractors are taking mystery peptides? have there been studies, or are you vibing this guess off snarky reddit comments?
            • ianm2183 minutes ago
              Anecdotally I know several people who would fall in the camp of anti vax but openly use peptides.

              And intuitively it makes sense we’re talking about groups of people who are skeptical of main stream institutional health recommendations but trust specific personal sources for medical advice.

              I’m vibing but it feels like there is a pretty clear intersection of peptides and the fringe science health community no?

        • epistasis44 minutes ago
          I don't think I'll find that, after investigating the claims I have heard.
      • quotemstr6 minutes ago
        Nobody's used state power to mandate peptides and social media censorship to reports of adverse effects.

        As many of us said at the time, the mandates weren't worth the destruction of public trust, especially because the vaccine wasn't even sterilizing.

        The next time there's a crisis, resist the urge to use the government to achieve outcomes by brute force. It doesn't work and has generational adverse consequences.

      • apian hour ago
        “I won’t put chemicals from big pharma in my body!”

        Proceeds to raw dog a bunch of “research chemicals” cause some roided up bro talked about it on a podcast…

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gbFMWZWlo

        They’re not vaccines though.

      • alex1138an hour ago
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        • doginasuit33 minutes ago
          Well cited doesn't mean very much outside of the context of peer reviewed work.

          This book pushes Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine as "miracle cures", thanks to that idea my relatives also have a stockpile of both.

        • LastTrain14 minutes ago
          I have a simple rule. If a person spews complete bullshit I no longer trust them.
        • epistasisan hour ago
          Please do better than saying an intellectually bankrupt book is "well cited."

          If you mean lots of people cite it, well, that's the grift. It's lies sold to people desperate for validation of their conspiracy theories.

          If you mean that it's a book based on good citations, well, hah, very untrue.

          • manwe15035 minutes ago
            Having read it, he does cite something for almost every claim. Although almost every source also contradicts his conclusions on some basic, logical, statistical, mathematical, or humane level, if you bother to fact check them. So it’s quite hard to quantify what it means to say it has good citations.
          • lettergraman hour ago
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            • shaknaan hour ago
              RFK's reliance on terrain theory, disproved continually since some five hundred years ago, does much to assist in citations - it is common to cite bad science as evidence where we need to improve public comprehension.
    • steve-atx-760033 minutes ago
      “Science-schmiance”
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  • ggm37 minutes ago
    Shorter lead times in the face of viral mutations will be helpful.

    Tailored vaccines for things like cancer are a game changer.

    I live in hope of a semi-universal flu+related vaccine.

    I live in fear of the measles induced "immune amnesia" effect.

  • willmadden16 minutes ago
    The link in the article does not show the study, just a list of references, a summary and the researchers who published it. How many of the researchers who published this study have conflicts of interest? Where is the full study for review?
  • api2 hours ago
    The potential for the technology in cancer treatment is what I find most exciting.
    • epistasisan hour ago
      Yes, I've been very excited about that for more than 10 years. It may not pan out, it's far more speculative than infectious disease prevention, but when combined with checkpoint inhibitors, and I fear they may not do the bold thing and do fully personalized therapeutic vaccines, but it does provide a great deal of hope.
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        • weikju2 hours ago
          Just a much narrower definition of humanity than what we’re thinking.
      • jimbob452 hours ago
        Until HIPAA is gone, we’ll never be able to make use of enough data to truly make a difference for those last two.
  • _heimdall33 minutes ago
    I don't have access to the full article unfortunately, but I have doubts on the claims.

    Even during the pandemic response it was eventually acknowledged that early claims of vaccines preventing infection or even spread weren't supported by the trials. Trials were only done to study how many participants sought medical attention for symptomatic infection and had no data related to spread or asymptomatic carriers (or even those who just didn't seek care, though hopefully that was negligible).

    The overview of this article seems to lean heavily on existing studies, modeling, and observational studies. Modeling and observational studies can only indicate correlation rather than causation, and I'm not aware of controlled studies for mRNA vaccines that tested for protection against infection or spread.

    • epistasis31 minutes ago
      > Even during the pandemic response it was eventually acknowledged that early claims of vaccines preventing infection or even spread weren't supported by the trials.

      To the very best of my knowledge this is just misinformation. If you have a citation here, please provide it.

      • _heimdall29 minutes ago
        Is your concern with what the studies tested or whether it was acknowledged?

        I can find you links, though it will be directly to the original studies done for the covid vaccines. The studies were well written and clearly called out their methodology. The problem was with how the studies were interpreted and explained to the public, not with the studies themselves.

        • _heimdall22 minutes ago
          Here's one of the studies [1]. I don't have time to read the whole thing again at the moment so I'm going mostly off of memory here, but they had a subset of the population prompted via a digital diary for part of the study to ask about adverse events. The rest of the population was only tracked via unsolicited notifications (the participants notified of issues unprompted).

          The studies only ran for 3-4 weeks each, at which point they were unblinded. Though they did continue tracking reported adverse events for a while if I'm not mistaken, the study was no longer blind or controlled at that point though so I don't put any weight behind that data (I'm sure there's plenty that disagree with me disregarding data collected after the unblinding).

          [1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

      • vfclists2 minutes ago
        Where are the citations supporting your view that the vaccines were effective at preventing infection?
  • d--b39 minutes ago
    You mean the stuff the whole world got injected with in 2020? Good to know!

    Seriously though, I am very pro-vax, but the fact that studies like these come out now is just confirmation that people had the right to doubt the safety of mRNA back then. Many people shamed others for being anti vax but everyone has the right to be careful.

    • manwe15026 minutes ago
      Why would repeating a study now and getting the same result as when it was first measured in 2020 be a reason to doubt the safety?

      I’m also pro-vax, so I don’t think it is correct to equate ignoring the preponderance of current evidence (in 2021 or 2026) for vaccine protection as being careful. That just seems the logical fallacy sold by “vax hesitant” and social media influencers to make people feel smart to ignore statistics and “make their own choice based on intuition”

    • add-sub-mul-div27 minutes ago
      People have rights but they also have the responsibility to be scientifically literate enough to know that analyzing data about the vaccine was prudent regardless of anything and does not suggest their prostration to antivax demagogues was smart.
    • alex113830 minutes ago
      And the fact that the 'science' never proved that the way this was done was helpful. But that won't stop the legions of downvoters
  • yieldcrvan hour ago
    > The researchers emphasize that, like all vaccines, mRNA vaccines can have side effects. They found that serious adverse events—such as myocarditis, which occurs more frequently in younger males—are rare and consistently outweighed by the vaccines’ protection

    reminder to the myocarditis-maxxies, the actual virus causes that too and the 2020-2021 variants caused it worse

    if we were all going to drop dead (I think 2 years ago now, I’m waaaaiting!) for whatever the vaccine did, it would apply to a broader population due to covid exposure

    • ifyoubuildit35 minutes ago
      > reminder to the myocarditis-maxxies, the actual virus causes that too and the 2020-2021 variants caused it worse

      Do you know if the vaccine prevented the virus-induced myocarditis? Cause the vaccine didn't do much to stop people from getting covid, multiple times even.

      So many people frame this as either/or, you either had the risk of covid induced myocarditis or you had the (supposed) lesser risk of myocarditis from the vaccine. But if you got the vaccine (x times) and then covid (y times), isn't your risk roughly x + y?

      • yieldcrv24 minutes ago
        I want to empathize with you, plenty of medical professionals used really reductive and inaccurate language that should be rightfully criticized. stopping people from getting covid being one of those things

        none of those were goals of the vaccine, so its a fruitless exercise to build on top of

        they communicated poorly at all levels the one time society needed them to communicate effectively, and lost the public trust

        The goal was to reduce the spread overall, lessen the symptoms for individuals, have your own body fight it faster instead of becoming a factory for it, de-risking cytokine storms

    • antonvsan hour ago
      > if we were all going to drop dead (I think 2 years ago now, I’m waaaaiting!)

      Channeling Monty Python:

      ... I got better

    • vlian208832 minutes ago
      the winter of severe illness and death we were promised hadn't happened either.
  • diego_moitaan hour ago
    In the end, do facts even matter in politically charged discussions?

    This sounds a bit like providing evidence for global warming, gun control or evolution. The "skeptics" just want to remain ignorant. No amount of evidence will change them.

    The silver lining about vaccine skeptics, though, is the Herman Cain award[1]. What this means is that conservatives die more than liberals from preventable diseases [2].

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_Award

    [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

  • petilon2 hours ago
    The science doesn't matter to this administration unfortunately: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo
    • timr2 hours ago
      This administration literally fast-tracked the original covid vaccines for approval.

      Say what you will about the Covid vaccine or Kennedy’s specific motivations (which I disagree with), but choosing to cut government funding for development of wildly profitable pharmaceutical products is a reasonable choice.

      • lokar2 hours ago
        My understanding is that vaccine research and production is almost never profitable and depends on government support. Either grants, guaranteed purchases, or both.
        • timran hour ago
          Your understanding is incorrect. All research is unprofitable, by definition. Vaccines are wildly profitable.
          • baronvonspan hour ago
            Yeah that's called survivorship bias. The ones that make it to market can be wildly profitable to manufacture. Doing all the work to sift through what does and doesn't work to discover new vaccines wouldn't happen without public funding.
            • timran hour ago
              No, that’s called pharmaceutical development. That’s the business.

              We don’t generally fund Merck’s R&D with federal money. You’ll note the following critical detail from the article:

              > That will impact 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, HHS said.

              We’ve gone so far round the bend with partisanship that straight-up corporate welfare has become a left-wing cause.

          • lokaran hour ago
            Yeah, there would be none without government support.

            Remember when everyone was contributing spare dimes to fund a vaccine?

            • timran hour ago
              No. Pharmaceutical companies love vaccines. They’re relatively easy to make, they’re indemnified against harms, they cannot be generic, and they are wildly profitable. And on top of all of that, they often get mandated by schools, ensuring a captive market.

              If the government never funded another study for vaccines, ever, pharma companies would continue to pump them out.

              • lokaran hour ago
                The mandate is the government support, it’s a purchase guarantee.
                • timran hour ago
                  …Which hasn’t changed.

                  Also, for the record: very few (no?) vaccines are “mandated” by the federal government. Recommendations are made, and state and local governments do this, mainly through school districts.

                  Various agencies and the military will, of course, mandate things for their own staff.

          • antonvsan hour ago
            > All research is unprofitable, by definition.

            The game to compensate for that is to be to convince gullible investors that your commercially viable fusion plant, or quantum computer, or unrealistic space ambitions are just 5 years away! Invest now or miss out!

            The line between research and scamming in an ultracapitalist economy becomes very blurry.

      • adjejmxbdjdn2 hours ago
        Nope. Not this administration at all.

        Trump 1 was a very different administration.

        And Trump himself has publicly backed off what was probably his one major achievement after receiving pushback from his supporters.

        • timr2 hours ago
          You’re splitting hairs.
          • TylerE2 hours ago
            No, he really isn’t.

            Trump one had a sane (terrible, but sane) cabinet that largely controlled his wilder impulses.

            This time he went for loyalty above all else.

            • timran hour ago
              > Trump one had a sane cabinet that largely controlled his wilder impulses.

              This is absurdly revisionist. The first administration’s cabinet/staff was a reality show and a merry go round of people like Anthony Scaramucci and Ryan Zinke. If anything “controlled” it, it was just the chaos of incompetence.

              As far as loyalty goes, I suppose it’s worth reminding you that Kennedy was a Democrat, who ran in the Democratic presidential primary, and routinely criticized Trump.

              • jancsikaan hour ago
                OP is saying Trump has demanded loyalty as a condition of serving in his administration. As HHS Secretary, RFK caved on Roundup, something he famously won a case against as a lawyer[1]. That even lost RFK support from some of his MAHA fans.

                1: https://apnews.com/article/maha-glyphosate-rfk-kennedy-trump...

              • petilonan hour ago
                Relatively speaking Trump 1.0 had a sane cabinet. Yes, there were some crazies, sure, but relative to the people he has around him now, they seem sane.
              • ceejayozan hour ago
                Where’s the Kelly and Mattis in the second term?

                Kennedy was a Democrat as a spoiler.

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      • api2 hours ago
        The biggest single success from Trump’s first term is the thing his base hates to the point that they booed him over it.
      • altmanaltmanan hour ago
        It's literally not the same administration. Also yeah he wants private companies to stop "wild" profits while he grifts the nation with crypto, hosting UFC on white house? You have to be stupid or willfully ignorant to think the current administration gives a single f about unchecked profits or the people's general wellbeing.
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      • petilon2 hours ago
        Not many people know that Trump had a hand in starting the pandemic.

        Here's what we know: In 2014, Obama administration halted the so called "gain of function" research because of risk of laboratory accidents. In 2017, the Trump administration restarted this dangerous research. See links below.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/white-house-to-cut-fun...

        Excerpt: [Obama administration] White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous. The White House said the moratorium decision had been made “following recent biosafety incidents at federal research facilities.”

        https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...

        Excerpt: [Trump administration] on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal. Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic.

        So, Trump restarted the dangerous research that Obama had shut down. You may be thinking, what does that have to do with Covid? Covid started in Wuhan, China, right?

        It turns out that the Trump administration, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided funding to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American non-profit organization focused on studying emerging diseases. The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses. The rest is history.

        And then Trump also disbanded the pandemic preparedness team in 2018 just in time for the pandemic. See link below.

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-t...

        • timr2 hours ago
          Well, I have to say that this is the most innovative leap of partisan politics I’ve seen so far this year!

          Most left-wing critics are still struggling with admitting that Anthony Fauci really did provide funding to EcoHealth, despite ample documentation.

          • petilonan hour ago
            Not sure what is partisan about this. Some facts were presented. Not opinions, facts. If you dispute any of the above is factual please back up your assertion with citations.
            • timran hour ago
              The facts are true. Blaming Trump is the innovation.

              For the record, I don’t care who gets blamed. I just think it’s a hilarious twist of partisan rhetoric.

              • petilonan hour ago
                If the President hires someone who then restarted research that previous admin stopped for being too dangerous, does the President get no part of the blame? The buck stops with the President. If he hired the wrong person--and he has hired plenty of wrong people this time around--he gets the blame for the disasters they cause.
        • stinkbeetle2 hours ago
          No that was a conspiracy theory fueled by Russian disinformation, the scientists and experts testified that there was no gain of function work being done and debunked it.
          • petilonan hour ago
            Citation needed. If you are going to say NYT article is wrong we need more than just your words.
            • stinkbeetlean hour ago
              You really believe some billionaire oligarchs propaganda corporation over foremost self-proclaimed expert Anthony "I am the science" Fauci? Something an agent of Putin would say.
    • dogwalker50002 hours ago
      Wow, they literally put an antivaccer in charge of the health department.
      • wrsan hour ago
        I'm honestly surprised they didn't put a flat-earther in charge of NASA.
        • Sabinus3 minutes ago
          It's a lot harder to claim success with no evidence in the space race than healthcare policy.

          There's a minimum level of actual competence needed for that job to not embarrass the Trump admin.

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    • yieldcrvan hour ago
      This is a thread about the world, not American hubris about its relevance in it

      Thanks for the new toll in Hormuz though

      • nxm18 minutes ago
        What toll?
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    • petterroea2 hours ago
      If we want to solve that we need to stop enabling career politicians whose only life experience is debating
      • xboxnolifesan hour ago
        Right now, we'd be better off if we even had politicians who could manage an actual debate. Seems like we can't get anything other than mudslinging and strongarming right now.
      • TylerE2 hours ago
        We would be a hell of a lot better off with career politicians than the current batch of grifters and ex-Fox News chuckleheads.
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    • asteroidburger2 hours ago
      Looking forward to reading about it in The Lancet or another respected medical publication.
      • snootypoot2 hours ago
        do those exist anymore? any publication that accepted the revised definition of natural immunity during the global push for this untested gene therapy mrna injection seems to be discredited. i remember when natural immunity went from being a normal concept to a right wing conspiracy theory.
  • TacticalCoder2 hours ago
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    • jleyank2 hours ago
      They had done safety and effectiveness testing before deployment back then. These are retrospective studies using a real large dosing and placebo population.

      The closest to “untested drug matter” that existed was the antibody cocktail that might have kept Trump alive.

    • lokar2 hours ago
      They did all the normal steps in the US. It was faster because they had the full attention of the FDA (so zero admin delays), and they did some parts in parallel, risking wasting money if things did not work out.

      The mRNA approach already had years of work prior to COVID, and was already reviewed for safety.

      • Terr_2 hours ago
        > years of work prior to COVID

        It's worth highlghting the importance of years of basic science-research and testing, all little pieces which were mostly there when we finally needed them, work that was always under-threat from people saying "what use is this, why would we ever need that?" (For which the pandemic is an implicit answe the pandemic answered: "Stuff like this!")

        Among many of those collective small contributions that create a practical and effective outcome, one example of work thankfully done in advance:

        > But the thing is, our vaccine is only generating the spikes itself, and we’re not mounting them on any kind of virus body. It turns out that, unmodified, freestanding Spike proteins collapse into a different structure. If injected as a vaccine, this would indeed cause our bodies to develop immunity.. but only against the collapsed spike protein. And the real SARS-CoV-2 shows up with the spiky Spike. The vaccine would not work very well in that case.

        > In 2017 it was described how putting a double Proline substitution in just the right place would make the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS S proteins take up their ‘pre-fusion’ configuration, even without being part of the whole virus. This works because Proline is a very rigid amino acid. It acts as a kind of splint, stabilising the protein in the state we need to show to the immune system. The people that discovered this should be walking around high-fiving themselves incessantly. Unbearable amounts of smugness should be emanating from them. And it would all be well deserved.

        [0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

      • jleyank2 hours ago
        The world was lucky the omicron mutation chose virulence over lethality - it could outcompete the older, more “effective” strains. This coupled with vaccines, isolation and antivirals (and treatment changes) kept the count down.

        A different roll of the mutation dice might have made a sars that spread easily. That would have thinned out the middle aged folks.

    • petilon2 hours ago
      You do what you have to do when people are dying in droves due to a pandemic and morgues are running out of room.
      • thin_carapace2 hours ago
        people indeed were dying in droves. based on the study in sweden the vast majority of those deaths (>90%) were in the age bracket of 70 plus. aged care is already a massive issue thanks to money making being more important than having families and being human - our aging population could have been addressed here. obviously the immunocompromised and the elderly did benefit alongside pharma execs. still this seems like a 'protect the kids' type of excuse. why should I be happy that swathes of the youth had to sacrifice their bodies just so that their grandparents could live a few more years of luxury ? I'm saying this because I know multiple people that were affected negatively by coronavirus vaccines and they were all young.
      • ses19842 hours ago
        That’s fake news. I had covid and I was fine.

        /s

    • netsharc2 hours ago
      They did zero trials before those billions of doses! None! Straight from the lab into your veins!

      /S

  • linzhangrun2 hours ago
    Two most populous countries, China and India, seem to have mainly relied on inactivated vaccines.
    • epistasis2 hours ago
      Which makes sense as they had less access to new technologies, and scaling issues were very hard in the early days.

      But I'm not quite sure how that's relevant to the article...

      • ggm39 minutes ago
        Both economies have massive drug industries and China in particular has advanced manufacturing processes for decades. I suspect they made an economic/risk decision and will be reviewing it in the light of mRNA production lead time.

        We're way beyond lysenko. China has no intellectual or political baggage in vaccine theory or bio engineering.

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  • nikolay14 minutes ago
    Safe for Bit Pharma's profits!
  • tencentshillan hour ago
    Good thing we got [rest of world] to do the hard science work, and America can just benefit from it instead!
  • declan_robertsan hour ago
    Really glad they confirmed this, about 5 years after I was forced to take one at threat of job loss despite 1) already having had natural Covid and 2) working a fully remote job.

    But better late than never I suppose.

    • epistasis24 minutes ago
      They confirmed this when the vaccines were authorized. And as part of every drug, there's continual, ongoing, review of the data to ensure that safety is maintained, and that nothing has changed about the drug and its manufacturing. This is the "phase 4" of a drug, continual ongoing monitoring.