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Regardless of your judgement about self-experimentation, and regardless of the fact that a whitepaper is explicitly not a peer-reviewed journal article, the whi
by Confiks 6y ago
Regardless of your judgement about self-experimentation, and regardless of the fact that a whitepaper is explicitly not a peer-reviewed journal article, the whitepaper [1] is a very interesting and carefully considered document.
They argue throughout that multi-dose nasal vaccines are a severely underlooked avenue for localized immunization.
A main criticism is that an untested vaccine might unintentionally enhance the actual disease. They argue that antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) specifically is less likely because the immune response of the intranasal vaccine is limited to the mucosal tissue [2].
[1] https://radvac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/White-Paper-SARS-CoV-2-vaccine-ver-2-3-2.pdf https://radvac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/White-Paper-SA...
[2] See [1] page 6