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Originally Posted by ChicagoNative
From CDC:
mRNA Vaccines Are New, But Not Unknown
Researchers have been studying and working with mRNA vaccines for decades. Interest has grown in these vaccines because they can be developed in a laboratory using readily available materials. This means the process can be standardized and scaled up, making vaccine development faster than traditional methods of making vaccines.
mRNA vaccines have been studied before for flu, Zika, rabies, and cytomegalovirus (CMV). As soon as the necessary information about the virus that causes COVID-19 was available, scientists began designing the mRNA instructions for cells to build the unique spike protein into an mRNA vaccine.
Future mRNA vaccine technology may allow for one vaccine to provide protection for multiple diseases, thus decreasing the number of shots needed for protection against common vaccine-preventable diseases.
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I posted this video last week under Medical Talk, if anyone is interested in mRNA. As for long term studies, it would take 5 years to get the results.
Also, when 150 million people in the US are still unvaccinated, you can't blame the spread of the Delta variant solely on those crossing the southern border. Btw, every person from Canada to the southern tip of South America are Americans, a small detail, that is often overlooked.
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