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Agreed that the risk:reward ratio here would be worth it. This sounds super promising. That being said, how is it known that having had the mutated strain provi
by lpa22 7y ago
Agreed that the risk:reward ratio here would be worth it. This sounds super promising. That being said, how is it known that having had the mutated strain provides immunity to the dangerous strain?
- enchiridion 7y agoIt probably won't be known at first, but we're talking a timescale of months to work out things like that. Things could be back to normal by the end of the year if we start now-ish. That is not blind hope either, it's just simple math.
- danieltillett 7y agoThe reason why it would provide immunity is all the structural proteins would be the same. To our immune system it would look like the same virus as the pathogenic strains. This is not really anything unusual and is exactly how viral live vaccines work. The vaccine for live polio and measles work exactly this way.
- robocat 7y agoThey know which parts of the RNA express the spike protein that our antibodies recognise. If the spike protein is not affected, then the virus should still be good for training our immune system to respond to.