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Just build up the capacity to produce 8 billion mRNA vaccines a month and we should be able to react quick enough to whatever pops up. Easy.
by abacadaba 6y ago
Just build up the capacity to produce 8 billion mRNA vaccines a month and we should be able to react quick enough to whatever pops up. Easy.
- lmilcin 6y agoThe issue with vaccines is that the human immune system has limited capacity to learn viruses. Once it learns a virus it has hard time learning a similar one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
- abacadaba 6y agoWell that sucks. Interesting that they use flu as the example for this yet we still give out flu shots. Partly why they're only 50% effective? Also if the second dose increases the memory response could we be better off in the long run with a 1 dose initial vaccine?
- lmilcin 6y agoImmune system forgets about flu after some time. But when you want to get flu shot before season it is a little bit of a game whether you get the right shot for what is going to be prevalent strain this year.
- LeanderK 6y agois it really a limited capacity or just a large bias that results in slow learning? If so maybe again two shots of vaccines are needed to "update" the immune system. The well-being whole world is at stake, i hope we figure something out.
- lmilcin 6y agoYour immune system is lazy and when it "thinks" it already knows the virus it kinda ignores it. But what it knows is the previously learned virus so the actual response to the new one might be less effective.
- LeanderK 6y agoMaybe vaccines can be produced that are only used to update your immune-system and try to avoid triggering the previous response, so they are only useful in combination with a previous shot?