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COVID mutates to become vaccine resistant
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2021-10-05 at 4:21 PM UTCThis is never gonna be over lol just get a new shot every year whats the big deal??
https://www.ft.com/content/d88457da-6bbc-4f07-82a6-4738aa845492
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/biontech-chief-predicts-need-for-updated-covid-vaccines-next-year-1.4689927The chief executive of the biotechnology group behind the first Covid-19 vaccine has said a new formulation is likely to be needed by the middle of next year to protect against the virus as it mutates.
Ugur Sahin, chief executive of BioNTech, told the Financial Times that as time passes, mutations will emerge that can evade the body’s immune defences. “This year [a different vaccine] is completely unneeded. But by mid next year, it could be a different situation,” he predicted.
A partnership between the German biotech and US pharmaceutical company Pfizer brought the first Covid-19 vaccine to market. It was also the first vaccine based on scary science thing technology to win regulatory approval, and has been the world’s best-selling drug this year.
In an interview with the FT, Sahin said the Covid-19 variants currently in circulation, particularly the Delta strain, were more contagious but not different enough to undermine the effectiveness of current vaccines.
Booster shots seem able to tackle the main variants, Sahin said. But the virus will eventually develop mutations that can escape the immune response bestowed by the vaccine, he said, necessitating a “tailored” version to specifically target the new strain. -
2021-10-05 at 4:22 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 4:26 PM UTCAh yes back in the 70s I needed to get a flu shot every year to keep my job at the gas station or else I could risk killing some elderly person by transmitting a disease. Stay safe!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-05 at 4:37 PM UTCI got my flu shot for this year about 3 weeks ago, the band aid the pharmacy technician put on had a smiley face with a thumbs up on it. It made me feel special and that I was saving lives.
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2021-10-05 at 4:38 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-05 at 4:40 PM UTCAll viruses evolve to evade immunity, that's why we have around a zillion cold and flu viruses going around instead of just one of each.
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2021-10-05 at 4:41 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 4:47 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 4:48 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 4:50 PM UTCGuys this is just corporatocracy, fuck democracy and voting. I say we allow multinational corporations to run a global no borders society and our historical culture becomes eroded by brand loyalty and marketing
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2021-10-05 at 4:51 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 4:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood Guys this is just corporatocracy, fuck democracy and voting. I say we allow multinational corporations to run a global no borders society and our historical culture becomes eroded by brand loyalty and marketing
Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist who supports the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism.
That's a legit source then. -
2021-10-05 at 4:53 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 5:09 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 5:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny thats because your either too affraid to exercise your 2a and take it back, or because your 2a is totally effiminate and impotent to take anything back.
choose.
He said returned not taken...though as I demonstrated that's not true either as the US recently returned power to the Taliban. -
2021-10-05 at 5:25 PM UTCNot true.
The Taliban took power back by scaring the Afghan government to run and hide. -
2021-10-05 at 5:27 PM UTC
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2021-10-05 at 5:28 PM UTCAbandoning something KNOWING the previous owners will take possession = effectively returning it.
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2021-10-05 at 5:35 PM UTC
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