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I don't think so, or at least, the Covid vaccine trials so far suggest that if it is possible, they either haven't done it or it didn't work, given that some st
by apendleton 6y ago
I don't think so, or at least, the Covid vaccine trials so far suggest that if it is possible, they either haven't done it or it didn't work, given that some study participants did have pre-existing exposure, and it made the vaccine work less well. Worse still: older people, having had more opportunities for exposure over their lifetimes, were most likely to experience this outcome. Slight caveat, I guess, that where I've seen this discussed, it's been about CanSino's Ad5-vectored vaccine, rather than any of the Ad26 ones, but I don't know of any reason it'd be different.
From what I understand, part of the reason that the Oxford group chose a chimp adenovirus was specifically to avoid this issue, as the odds of people having been naturally exposed to chimp adenoviruses is probably pretty low.
- vertis 6y agoFrom my very very limited understanding isn't the adenovirus just a delivery mechanism? Is there a dependency on ad26 that would mean nothing else could be the delivery mechanism?
- epmaybe 6y agoI'd imagine that ad26 is just the serotype used, and so if you used a different serotype for other vaccines that don't have much cross immunogenicity, you'd be in the clear.