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>amateur opinion based on mainstream broad understanding I don’t think experts are reading tea leaves and it’s pretty wild to claim that. There are literally billions of dollars at stake. To bring it bag to software, that’s like me claiming I think machine learning people are just using fancy excel formulas.
I mean... it's a lot of excel formulas, but still basically excel formulas!
Would it be easier to cover more flu strains with an mRNA vaccine? Could we shove like 100 in there?
Sure, but who do you know that’s willing to get 100 flu shots in a year?
Would it be easier to cover more flu strains with an mRNA vaccine? Could we shove like 100 in there?
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Yeah I agree - so much of the original downlplaying of Covid was along the lines of "Well, the flu kills 50,000 people per year and we don't take extraordinary measures" which is an insane line of thought for multiple reasons but not least because we just write off 50,000+ people per year without much of a stink.
Don't they already have flu vaccines. I thought the issue was that they changed so rapidly the vaccines can't keep up?
The hope is that with a much faster time from approval -> production, in theory we could reassess in October / December / February and vaccinate against the most virulent strains that are actually showing up in populations. There are reports that Moderna had a vaccine developed in two days once they received the sequence from researchers. If they or similar companies received "platform" approval to ship new vaccines with abbreviated testing, it could dramatically change how we vaccinate for the flu.
I am curious how a trial for the HIV vaccine will proceed in a world where PrEP is available.
I am curious how a trial for the HIV vaccine will proceed in a world where PrEP is available.
https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/why-the-hiv-epidemic...
Really good news! Hopefully these get approved relatively quickly. I'm most excited about the seasonal flu vaccine. That could be a major game changer.
Some anecdata: I had the flu NUMEROUS times as a child/young adult. I know what the flu feels like. A couple of years ago, I got the flu (no, I didn't go to the doctor because I knew it was 'just' the flu). I was feeling crummy one day, and the next I was curled up in bed, unable to move, fever with body aches, and slept most of that day. My wife told me about elderberry and gave me 4 or 5 spoonfuls of an elderberry tincture throughout the day. The next day, I was shoveling compost in the yard.
I am curious how a trial for the HIV vaccine will proceed in a world where PrEP is available.
Even in the West, isn't it really expensive?