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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I guess there’s no such thing as too much of a great thing, right?
I’ll pass, thank you very much.
‘God gave us two arms - one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot’: Biden’s COVID coordinator says
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4091405/posts
There is something horribly sinister about the true motives behind this if you peel the onion deep enough.
This will be the first time in quite awhile that I will not be getting a flu shot. Maybe never again.
This story has become a documentary.
AVOID ALL COVID AND FLU “SHOYS”.
They are useless and probably harmful.
Same here.
Chuckle.
Me either. I never took a flu shot - or a Covid shot.
IDs funny though - I was never anti-vaccination. My parents were against going to the doctor or taking medicine for common ailments, but they had no problem with us getting the vaccinations recommended by the school.
Then, when I did a lot of international travel for Scott Paper Co, I had no problem getting all the vaccinations their staff doctors recommended.
I assumed, as my parents did, that these doctors knew what they were doing and had no motive to lie to me.
We can’t assume that any more. The authorities are lying to us about everything.
Take plenty of C, D3, and Zinc every damn day and you will be fine!!! If you BOOST your immune system your natural system WILL take care of ANYTHING attacking your health!!
“Take plenty of C, D3, and Zinc every damn day and you will be fine!!”
I started doing just that since the onset of Covid. Plus a few more items.
Yeah...they didn’t get enuff of us on the first go.
Gotta give it another go, see if the rubes bite this time...
no worries
the same maroons who fell for the chinee flu...
we better off without them
Don’t you understand that common sense isn’t welcome in our culture anymore??? :-)
I “came of age” in terms of political awareness during the Watergate hearings and the fall of Saigon.
I “came of age” in terms of voter eligibility shortly before Three Mile Island.
My generation learned one simple truth: Government and their “experts” LIE.
Remarkable success at killing people!!! WTFO!
NOTHING was FDA approved. COVID VAX is still EUA. mRNA secret sauce is EUA.
Even better if you add Quercetin and NAC during flu season-natural immunity is the best and safest kind-nothing unnatural involved...
Now, the flu shots are frankenvaxxes, too-glad I have not done that, either...
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