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If you’re talking about the internet hoax about research on GO and covid vaccines, or GO secretly being included in certain vaccines, that for some reason keeps popping up, it’s fake.
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No I am NOT referring to that. I actually had in mind this study that ransomnote posted. Did you even read it, or did you just assume it was the same as the “hoax”?

This study is on using GO for bio-medical nanotechnology. Apparently they think it has uses, even if it is toxic.

Short summary:

GO has been studied quite often for bio-medical nanotechnology use. Nanotechnology has been studied for use in corona viruses . Applications to explore include ability to act both within and outside the cells.

This study was to see how effective it is against the RONA. Testing included the spike - open and closed, the ACE2 receptor, as well as the Bound ACE2 receptor. It reacts with all 3. But less with the bound ACE2.

The impact of GO on 4 different infectious virus were studied. Thin, biological‐grade GO nanoscale sheets are able to significantly reduce copies for three different viral clades. I’m not sure which was the 4th viral clade for which it wasn’t effective.

More study is proposed:

GO nanosheets are proposed to be further explored as a nanoscale platform for development of antiviral strategies against COVID‐19.

” a nanoscale platform for development of antiviral strategies against COVID‐19.”

the covid connection. Not all chemical inventions have practical applications. GO interfers with egg numbers and hatch rate in fish and settles in the gonads. GO doesn’t like neonatal human kidneys much, either. That’s also a problem. Even if GO is contained in a matrix, there’s risk of leakage (there would have to be for GO to have effect) Not to mention waste water involved in processing.

on fish:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32615454/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31005017/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30851531/
on humans:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31269699/

to end with a quote from “ Dr. Andrew Maynard, who is the National Science Foundation’s International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences as well as the Director for the University of Michigan’s Risk Science Center” :

” One of the greatest challenges to developing and using new materials is that it is impossible to prove a negative – to show through research that something is completely safe. Because of this, there needs to be reasonable boundaries placed on what is considered safe enough, and what is a reasonable research questions. Without these, there’s a danger that relatively safe materials will suck up precious research time and funding, while potentially dangerous new materials slip under the radar of scientific scrutiny.”