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COVID19 - To Vaccinate or To Not Vaccinate

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Theo166 wrote: »
    @kimny72 thanks for educating me that mRNA vaccines are a new approach to vaccines. Maybe my head was in the sand but I didn't realize that aspect of this issue. I guess after I already recovered from COVID, I hadn't really followed this aspect of the crisis.

    For others interested, I just found this article/paper that goes into some detail on the benefits of the mRNA approach
    mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology

    It's really fascinating stuff, even to someone like me who doesn't know a lot of the scientific terminology! The beauty of it seems to be that you use the same base for everything, and then just "plug in" the blueprint for whatever virus part you want manufactured. And you could put multiple blueprints in one shot, streamlining vaccinations. There is also talk that it theoretically could be used in cancer treatment, but I believe that is more aspirational, and I'm not really clear on how it would work :smile:
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,409 Member
    edited March 2021
    @ahoy_m8

    Yep.

  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    edited March 2021
    sijomial wrote: »
    Source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56440139

    A review by the EU's medicines regulator has concluded the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is "safe and effective".
    The European Medicines Agency (EMA) investigated after 13 EU states suspended use of the vaccine over fears of a link to blood clots.
    It found the jab was "not associated" with a higher risk of clots.


    Still can't get my head around why so many EU states that are in a desperate situation of rising infection rates are so keen to suspend one of the key vaccines when no causal link was indicated.

    Same here. I just don't get the pile on. A simple comparison of incidence rates between vaccine recipients & gen pop makes it almost impossible for the vaccine to be responsible, and that's without any sophisticated inquiry. And the start-then-stop, safe-questionable-safe messaging.... I just don't get it. Seems so harmful.
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