Posted on 02/18/2021 6:44:48 AM PST by dynachrome
The Microsoft co-founder, who has invested millions into coronavirus vaccine research, said that all five companies currently deploying their vaccines in the US are already considering boosters to mitigate the threat posed by the new variants.
Gates himself is funding multiple studies in South Africa to test the efficacy of vaccines from the likes of AstraZeneca, which he says “in particular has a challenge,” with the new variants, as well as the jabs from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, which he describes as “slightly less effective, but still effective” against the mutations.
He also proposed that a potential highly “tuned vaccine” or additional boosters may be required to adequately curb the threat posed by the coronavirus, in all its forms, over the coming years.
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“New research has found that a mutation in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, present in variants from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil, can make the virus up to eight times more infectious than the original.
The new research into the D614G mutation on the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2, present in all the latest variants currently plaguing healthcare systems the world over, was led by researchers at New York University, the New York Genome Center, and Mount Sinai.
“Confirming that the mutation leads to more transmissibility may help explain, in part, why the virus has spread so rapidly over the past year,” said Neville Sanjana, assistant professor of biology at NYU, who added that the mutation has reached “near universal prevalence” among the coronavirus variants spreading across the globe.”
For a political movement that stands so stout for “freedom of choice,” they sure don’t like it when people choose not to participate. Suddenly they’re “anti-vaxxers.”
Which dose are they going to put the chip in?
For a good business man he has some extremely idiotic opinions .
Will America survive the tender mercies of wok billionaires?
“Crazy” like a healthy fox.
Yes! That’s the ticket! And...he is footing the bill,I’m sure! Great guy that Bill Gates!
Any anxiety ridden Kevin or Karen can have my jab. I’ll try and make it without it. Double mask, double jab works better. It’s like 2...2...2 peachmints in one. Doublemint. Where’s Marxine? That face scares bugs off her car windshield when she’s driving down the freeway at 60 mph.
Given that this virus is more Captain Trips-like than the lessers who rule over us are willing to admit, we’re probably going to see COVID shots on an annual basis, just like with the flu.
They’ll try to figure out which three Captain Trips-y strains will be most prevalent during a winter season and then create the shot from them, and then those who need it can get it.
Coronavirus PING!
Following the science? So a college DROPOUT is now running the world? I am convinced that Gates has been a Chinese operative all along. He was “chosen” to be the “developer of MICROSOFT”.
Billy needs to go back to his push for steaks made from ‘fungi’. Funny how some folks attainment of YUGE amounts of money cause them to become totally useless.
So it’s going from a measles level of infectiousness (JMO, R0 of around 14) to a smallpox level (R0 of around at least 30), then.
Congratulations, Xi Jinping. You created a real-life Captain Trips for the elderly.
Sounds good. /sarc
As on meme put it, that face could stop bird crap in mid-air.
Well, we don’t think Bill Gates is “crazy” and “evil”, we think he is simply an “a-hole” and “evil”. And stupid and hypocritical to boot.
Well, that pretty much defines any Leftist. So there’s that.
I’m getting two shots of every “vaccine” on the market.
I wear scuba gear 24/7 as well.
I bathe in bleach.
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