Category: virus and immunology science
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Are the vaccines not very good? After all, we get small pox or measles shots that last a lifetime. Others like the vax for tetanus lasts for ~10 years. Why can’t we get a more durable coronavirus vaccine?
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Researchers have pretty well cataloged the unusual range of long COVID’s neurological symptoms and now are at the very early stages of understanding their causes and how to treat the problems.
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So, the Pfizer and Moderna technologies are very similar. But they are not identical. At first blush, the differences appear subtle, but we are learning that they seem to manifest themselves in different, not-so-subtle biological ways. Let’s take a look at the how the vaccines differ.
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In response to the viral pandemic, the military ordered all service personnel to receive a controversial vaccine against the virus.
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Now, an analysis of the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and the “v-safe after vaccination health checker, and its associated v-safe pregnancy registry, shows that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are safe for mothers and babies.
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As exciting as it is to see a simple mRNA sequence generate immunity to a pathogen, it is the less “sexy” lipid, or concoction of fat molecules that makes it possible and has been a bit of a bottleneck in manufacturing the vaccines.
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British public health officials just warned that the virus variant is just not more contagious, it also is 30-40% more lethal.
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