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The sure thing for a novel virus, as I understood, is an inactivated vaccine. For everything else, you are never sure if the biotech tricks, with all their int
by baybal2 5y ago
The sure thing for a novel virus, as I understood, is an inactivated vaccine.
For everything else, you are never sure if the biotech tricks, with all their intricacies, will work in that individual case.
- superkuh 5y agoWell, you're sure to get something with an inactivated viral particle. But you're not sure to get a usefully efficient protection from exposure to it. The problem with inactivated viral particles is the inactivation process, neccessarily, breaks the proteins and cause them to be liable to take up non-realistic shapes. When your immune system trains on the non-realistic shape the antibodies don't neutralize as well. See the sinovac inactivated sars-cov-2 vaccine for an example of this type of vaccine not working out (ie, <50% efficient).