Posted on 09/22/2022 5:54:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After the remarkable success of the mRNA vaccines in protecting people against COVID-19, scientists are turning their attention next to another annual respiratory scourge: influenza. Both Moderna and Pfizer—makers of the first vaccines to earn U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval using the mRNA technology—are studying whether subbing in the influenza virus’ genetic material in that platform will prove equally fruitful.
On Sept. 14, Pfizer announced that the first volunteers had received doses of its mRNA flu shot; the Phase 3 study will involve more than 25,000 adults in the U.S. ages 18 and up who will be randomly assigned to receive either the experimental vaccine or a placebo. In June, Moderna announced its late-stage trial of an mRNA-based influenza vaccine that targets the same flu strains that are expected to circulate this fall and winter. Moderna’s study will involve 6,000 adults in the U.S. and other countries in the southern hemisphere, which experiences its flu season several months before the U.S. Both trials are now at similar stages; neither company has provided a timeline for when they might expect results, and, if those results are positive, when they might submit a request to the FDA for approval.
Public health experts are hoping it won’t be long, however. The advantage of the mRNA platform is that it’s flexible and generalizable. Theoretically, scientists only need to switch out the genetic material, or mRNA sequences, from one virus for another. It’s a matter of figuring out which specific genes will activate the immune system the best—and that’s where researchers have decades of experience with influenza that they didn’t have with SARS-CoV-2.
Both companies are targeting the four flu strains that the World Health Organization (WHO) identified in February as being most likely to circulate during the 2022-2023 flu season in the
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Not for me, they aren’t.
Hard NO
Hahaha
NO
Hope, I didn’t take them last year because these people cannot be trusted to be honest.
hope was supposed to be Nope
Government wants to kill you. Especially if your ancestry is of european heritage.
My God...NO WAY!
Thank you for the heads-up. I want nothing to do with mRNA anything. So now I know what to ask about before getting my next flu shot.
Disclaimer: That’s just my opinion. Other people are perfectly fine with mRNA stuff. Maybe they’re right. Who knows?
They aren't vaccines
They did NOT get approval. They got, and are still under, EUA. NOT the same thing.
This is not "misinformation". It is blatant lies and propaganda.
Maybe they will test this one first.
Our press and media will gladly kill you with propaganda. Measure what you read, watch, or hear, very carefully.
I still will not comply
Oh hell no
(They aren’t vaccines)
Agreed 👍👍👍
Yeah...they didn’t get enuff of us on the first go.
Gotta give it another go, see if the rubes bite this time...
(”After the remarkable success of the mRNA vaccines”)
Good catch
Still feeding the official narrative to the sheep 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑.
The mRNA jabs are a new and risky therapy, you’d have to be an idiot to get it.
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