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Is there some expectation this will work better than the covid vaccine? Is "preventing severe infection" enough or would it actually need to prevent or cure inf
by version_five 5y ago
Is there some expectation this will work better than the covid vaccine? Is "preventing severe infection" enough or would it actually need to prevent or cure infection?
People talk about the mRNA vaccines as some new tool, but they didn't really work for covid, is there some reason it was especially tricky and they will do better elsewhere?
- Reason077 5y agoFirst of all, the mRNA Covid vaccines have proved highly effective, compared to influenza vaccines, for example. They're probably the most effective vaccines ever developed for any respiratory virus. Secondly, EBV is a herpes family virus, which as a DNA virus is about as far removed from an RNA virus like SARS-CoV-2 as it's possible to get on the virus family tree. There's no reason to expect that the efficacy of a particular vaccine technology on one would have any relation whatsoever to that of the other!
- glenngillen 5y agoI appreciate we’re drifting off thread here, but I’d not heard the “most effective vaccines ever developed for any respiratory virus” claim before. I’m likely about to end up in some research rabbit hole this afternoon, but if you happen to have references to support that claim it would be much appreciated.