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Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 06, 2020 08:44PM
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Researchers in Seattle have begun recruiting healthy volunteers to participate in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, according to news reports.
The vaccine, developed by the biotechnology company Moderna Therapeutics, was initially sent to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland on Feb. 24, according to The Wall Street Journal. The agency anticipates launching a clinical trial by the end of April and will sponsor the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute to conduct the testing, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci told The Wall Street Journal...
...The vaccine does not contain the virus that triggers COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, and cannot cause infection, according to a report by Kaiser Permanente. Unlike vaccines developed for other viruses, such as measles, this new vaccine does not utilize a weak or dead virus as its base. Instead, the vaccine contains a short segment of genetic material called messenger RNA, or mRNA, generated in a laboratory. In a typical cell, mRNA encodes instructions for building different proteins.
The artificial mRNA prompts cells to build a protein found on the surface of the virus, according to the Kaiser Permanente report. A person's immune system should react to this new protein by building up an arsenal of antibodies that target and latch onto this protein, tagging the virus for elimination. Then, the mRNA should break down and be eliminated by the body, leaving the vaccinated person better prepared to fight off SARS-CoV-2, should they ever encounter it.
Re: Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 06, 2020 08:55PM
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Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: March 06, 2020 09:14PM
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Date: March 06, 2020 09:20PM
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Date: March 06, 2020 11:18PM
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Posted by: Ombligo
Date: March 07, 2020 04:12AM
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Posted by: Bernie
Date: March 07, 2020 04:37AM
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Posted by: Michael
Date: March 07, 2020 05:50AM
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Posted by: modelamac
Date: March 07, 2020 09:16AM
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Re: Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 07, 2020 09:31AM
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Bernie
All vaccines are experimental, even the approved ones.
No recourse.
Big Pharma fully protected by law.
So if you believe in vaccines, the fact that it is experimental should not hold you back.
Re: Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: gabester
Date: March 07, 2020 09:34AM
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Date: March 07, 2020 10:16AM
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Posted by: neophyte
Date: March 07, 2020 11:13AM
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Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 07, 2020 11:22AM
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Posted by: Sarcany
Date: March 07, 2020 12:13PM
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neophyte
Too little info provided, red flags raised in the absence of more data. Which cells would express the mRNA, and would they be targeted by antibodies? Suppose the mRNA got expressed in my lung cells and provoked an immune response? Would Big Pharma pay for my lung transplant?
Re: Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: testcase
Date: March 07, 2020 01:40PM
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Re: Would you volunteer to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: March 07, 2020 04:23PM
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Bernie
All vaccines are experimental, even the approved ones.
No recourse.
Big Pharma fully protected by law.
So if you believe in vaccines, the fact that it is experimental should not hold you back.
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Posted by: fauch
Date: March 07, 2020 05:11PM
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Date: March 13, 2020 02:43PM
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Date: March 14, 2020 02:53AM
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