Posted on 01/26/2021 9:47:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel painted a long road ahead in the war against the pandemic and just gave a stark assessment of the pandemic, stating there is good reason to expect a need for ongoing booster shots to protect against mutations that could propagate other variants of SARS-Cov-2, the virus behind the global COVID-19 outbreak.
According to Bancel: “I believe SARS-Cov-2 is going to stay with humans forever,” in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “We’re going to have to have boosts adapted to a virus-like we have for flu. It’s the same thing, they are both mRNA viruses, and we’re going to have to live with it forever.”
This comes as the company also announced it was also beginning a test of an additional booster dose of its vaccine, in what they are saying is out of an abundance of caution to potentially strengthen the immune response against emerging strains. Bancel noted that while the original two-dose vaccine did, in fact,
preserve a protective response against the South African strain, with neutralizing antibodies diminished six-fold relative to prior variants. “The big question with the boost is going to be the dose,” he said.
“Do you need 25 or 50 or 100 micrograms? The current product that is authorized by the FDA is 100 micrograms, twice: A prime and a boost.” “If a dose was 50 or 25 micrograms, which is possible because your immune system is already prepared, you might not need to have a big increase of capacity,” he said.
This also follows President Biden drawing backlash for providing a pessimistic view of his administration’s ability to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the near future after he recently indicated that the trajectory of the pandemic can’t be changed in the coming months, no matter what Americans do. “If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” Biden said.
So Fauci and the idiots and Chinese that created these mutant virus strains have created an everlasting industry.
The Democrats sure pick funny ways to kill people claiming job creation.
Mutating into a more deadly form and killing it’s hosts isn’t a good way for a virus to survive. This is why viruses tend to mutate toward being less pathogenic.
And what if an asteroid collides with earth next month? What if the sun didn’t come up tomorrow? What if a cricket rubbed its legs together and no sound came out?
Oh noes! Oh noes!
Please.
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