Posted on 03/01/2021 8:26:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Moderna has manufactured and shipped samples of its vaccine targeting the South African coronavirus variant to the National Institutes of Health for human clinical trials, the company said in a news release.
Moderna says its two-dose vaccine does not work as well against the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa as it does against the first form of the coronavirus. The South African variant has spread around the world, with a few cases found in the United States.
“We look forward to beginning the clinical study of our variant booster and are grateful for the NIH’s continued collaboration to combat this pandemic,” Stéphane Bancel, Moderna CEO, said in the news release. “As we seek to defeat COVID-19, we must be vigilant and proactive as new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge.”
To battle the South African variant, Moderna is considering three kinds of booster shots to be given after two doses of the original vaccine: The new vaccine, the original vaccine, or a combination of the new and the original vaccines.
These booster shots would be given in 50 microgram doses, Moderna said. The first two doses are 100 micrograms each.
It’s not known when Moderna’s variant-specific vaccine, called mRNA-1273.351, might be ready for the public if it receives emergency use authorization. The FDA said this week that clinical trials for booster shots won’t take as long as for other COVID vaccines.
Impossible!
We only need one vaccine ever, right?
Not a fresh vaccine for mutant strains, right?
For a minute there, I read it as:
Moderna South African Variant Ready for Clinical Trials
Don’t be an idiot. There are well over twenty strains of flu, and each year the medical establishment picks 4 of them to make the quad valiant flu vaccine and 3 to make the standard vaccines this is normal practice for lipid virus that mutate in a regular basis. I’m so sick of people who don’t have at least a master’s of science running there mouths about stuff they are not even remotely qualified to speak on. Full disclosure I have two master’s and a PhD in sciences the lack of scientific prowess here sickens me.
Apologies for the English it’s not my native language.
You should be the official "science" czar of FR. Maybe the boss will appoint you.
So the covid, which has already mutated in ways that require adjusted vaccines, has been proved incapable of mutating in ways that require annually updated vaccines?
Please help us scientific “idiots” understand that “science”, and why it requires unfounded personal attacks devoid of actual science on covid mutations.
Just so long as you keep the scare quotes.
Aha. We may just have a misunderstanding accentuated by the second language.
In post #2, I was using sarcasm to hold entropy12’s feet to the fire from another thread. I have no idea whether covid will mutate quickly and require annual updates. Entropy12 suggested today’s covid shot is perfected and permanent. I was using this venue to twist the knife, showing we already have a variant requiring an update.
Perhaps we agree.....
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