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So we will get multiple competing strains that mutate quicker than we can develop the vaccine, with us trying to predict which strain will be dominant. Flue Vac

So we will get multiple competing strains that mutate quicker than we can develop the vaccine, with us trying to predict which strain will be dominant. Flue Vaccine is effectiveness estimated to be around 30% because of this. Dr Christina Parks testimony for Michigan HB4471, explains this effect. https://youtu.be/8DOOZpGA_VI https://youtu.be/8DOOZpGA_VI

mikeyouse 5y ago
Parks is a quack who lies a lot in public. I particularly like the end of your video where she goes all in on vaccines causing autism.
somewhereoutth 5y ago
Flu is perculiar because it reassorts - it's genome is in 8? pieces, which can interchange with other similar flu viruses within an infected cell. So a coinfection with A and B flu strains may result in C strain mixed and matched from A and B. Very hard to immunize against.
- sjg007 5y ago
  Could sars-cov2 not do the same thing?
  - somewhereoutth 5y ago
    No, different virus structure. I believe there may be some possibility of gene swapping with a coinfected cell, but much less than flu - the Covid RNA genome is one long string, as opposed to 8 bundled together - it's easier to mixup separate pieces. Furthermore, Covid does have an error correction mechanism, though not perfect hence the mutations.
wk_end 5y ago
Unrelated question, and not to pick on you if English isn't your first language - I'm always impressed by people who speak any multiple languages with any competency: I've seen people misspelling flu as "flue" a lot over the course of this pandemic. I thought maybe that it was a British spelling, or that it was the word in German or French or Russian or something and foreign language speakers were mistakenly using the same word in English based on the similarity, but I can't find a language where that's the case. What's up with that?
- asquabventured 5y ago
  InFLUEnza and the shortened version is pronounced like “blue” in English? Seems reasonable for a non-native speaker to infer it should be spelled with an e at the end.
  - Izkata 5y ago
    The syllables of "influenza" are "in-flu-en-za", that's probably why it became "flu" instead of "flue".
- elliekelly 5y ago
  I’m not the person you’re replying to but I’ve also been wondering the same. The best I can come up with is that “flue” is an actual word (like a chimney flue) and autocorrect doesn’t alert people to the error. Kind of like there, their, and they’re. In writing this comment though I’ve learned that my iPhone autocorrects flue to glue. Even when following the word chimney. So perhaps my pet theory is totally wrong.
- dukeofdoom 5y ago
  I'm just a bad speller, and don't check what I type. But English is my second language. Though I'm sure I would be terrible speller in my original language.

mikeyouse 5y ago

Parks is a quack who lies a lot in public. I particularly like the end of your video where she goes all in on vaccines causing autism.

somewhereoutth 5y ago

Flu is perculiar because it reassorts - it's genome is in 8? pieces, which can interchange with other similar flu viruses within an infected cell. So a coinfection with A and B flu strains may result in C strain mixed and matched from A and B. Very hard to immunize against.

sjg007 5y ago
Could sars-cov2 not do the same thing?
- somewhereoutth 5y ago
  No, different virus structure. I believe there may be some possibility of gene swapping with a coinfected cell, but much less than flu - the Covid RNA genome is one long string, as opposed to 8 bundled together - it's easier to mixup separate pieces. Furthermore, Covid does have an error correction mechanism, though not perfect hence the mutations.

wk_end 5y ago

Unrelated question, and not to pick on you if English isn't your first language - I'm always impressed by people who speak any multiple languages with any competency: I've seen people misspelling flu as "flue" a lot over the course of this pandemic. I thought maybe that it was a British spelling, or that it was the word in German or French or Russian or something and foreign language speakers were mistakenly using the same word in English based on the similarity, but I can't find a language where that's the case. What's up with that?

asquabventured 5y ago
InFLUEnza and the shortened version is pronounced like “blue” in English? Seems reasonable for a non-native speaker to infer it should be spelled with an e at the end.
- Izkata 5y ago
  The syllables of "influenza" are "in-flu-en-za", that's probably why it became "flu" instead of "flue".
elliekelly 5y ago
I’m not the person you’re replying to but I’ve also been wondering the same. The best I can come up with is that “flue” is an actual word (like a chimney flue) and autocorrect doesn’t alert people to the error. Kind of like there, their, and they’re. In writing this comment though I’ve learned that my iPhone autocorrects flue to glue. Even when following the word chimney. So perhaps my pet theory is totally wrong.
dukeofdoom 5y ago
I'm just a bad speller, and don't check what I type. But English is my second language. Though I'm sure I would be terrible speller in my original language.