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Can we just preemptively start vaccinating against this strain? we have the vaccine and seems like a low risk thing to get started on. even if no evidence of hu

• VirusNewbie 2y ago
  But the current strain isn’t the one that would allow for human to human transmission, so efficacy is completely unknown.
  • XorNot 2y ago
    There is however some promising work on designing antibodies which might be broadly effective against all flus including H5N1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21320540/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21320540/ But that's a decade away from deployment - though fortunately likely highly motivated if it works because the other promise is long-term immunity, rather then yearly boosters.
• attila-lendvai 2y ago
  peak dark age: i can't decide whether this is sarcasm or not...