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You can tell that it's fine because babies already survive breastfeeding from women who eat meat. Whether or not the mRNA breaks down, it's not harmful. Babies
by astrange 3y ago
You can tell that it's fine because babies already survive breastfeeding from women who eat meat. Whether or not the mRNA breaks down, it's not harmful.
Babies are actually different from adults here; they get antibodies from breast milk and it supports their immune system, since theirs isn't developed. It's a good thing.
- dablweb 3y agoThis is an incredibly bad and short-sighted take. This is not at all the same situation, and this sort of hubris is what causes public health disasters such as the Vioxx, Thalidomide or Dengvaxia scandals. This is artificially created genetic material ending up in newborns after the manufacturer assured the public that was not possible. I consider this incredibly serious.
- astrange 3y agoIf you're opposed to genetic material ending up in babies, I have bad news about their habit of putting everything in your house in their mouths. So the question is if it harms them, which this paper says it doesn't, and the mRNA vaccines are approved for infants already.
- nvm0n2 3y agoForeign mRNA doesn't hurt us because it's recognized by the body as harmful and immediately destroyed by the immune system. This was one of the biggest challenges to developing mRNA based drugs and vaccines. The mRNA used in the COVID shots isn't normal, of the type found in the wild. It's been created in such a way that the immune system doesn't recognize it, and then wrapped in artificial lipids. So you can't generalize from natural mRNA molecules to the artificial types, they are fundamentally different in both construction and effect.