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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

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I'll breathe a little easier if the Oxford vaccine shows similar efficacy. It is not an mRNA vaccine, but it does target the same protein in a not very complex virus. So it SHOULD be just as effective, but we shall see. If that one shows similar efficacy I'll be able to sleep at night.. It means they'll all be great including the next in line, J&J's single dose vaccine.
 
From my understanding, no. CRISPR uses Cas9 to alter DNA, but the vaccine just inserts RNA instructions for the cells. The DNA is never altered or affected by the vaccine. I don't even think there is a way to do that with how vaccines are administered.
 
Come to think about it... I guarantee that'll be a conspiracy theory out there for these vaccines. Dammit. We can't ever have anything nice.


EDIT: Can confirm. After a quick search the conspiracy theory is out there.
 
So yeah, people think this vaccine will alter people's DNA and I've seen some link it to Bill Gates of course.
 
Preston said:
From my understanding, no. CRISPR uses Cas9 to alter DNA, but the vaccine just inserts RNA instructions for the cells. The DNA is never altered or affected by the vaccine. I don't even think there is a way to do that with how vaccines are administered.
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I just hope that the cells can follow instructions better than most people.
 
Important for the Moderna vaccine is Canada has 56M doses booked for it, way more than the Pfizer one. Between the two it's more than enough to vaccinate everyone in the country. I guess still obviously an open question is where we end up in line for them and how it takes them to make that many doses, but certainly some good news.
 
UWHabs said:
Important for the Moderna vaccine is Canada has 56M doses booked for it, way more than the Pfizer one. Between the two it's more than enough to vaccinate everyone in the country. I guess still obviously an open question is where we end up in line for them and how it takes them to make that many doses, but certainly some good news.
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Yeah, but ideally the Oxford one and J&J work too since we have those on standby as well. We may not be first in like for all 56m doses of Moderna or 20m doses of Pfizer, but surely we can get some combination of those two plus Oxford + J&J + whatever else we have ordered (it's a lot of em!). If they all work as suspected we'll just prioritize which ones we can get first hopefully. Not to mention, we need supply to catch up to demand in a hurry so we're more likely to get it ASAP.
 
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Btw much of Europe's strict approach and locking down has worked absolute wonders. They are turning it around and at this rate things may be somewhat normal there for Christmas. There is fucking light at the end of the tunnel. Get it under control now, save as many lives as possible and we could look towards normalcy mid 2021. These businesses are suffering regardless of what we do. Shut 'em down, give them relief funds and we can start looking forward to getting out of this.
 
Preston said:
Btw much of Europe's strict approach and locking down has worked absolute wonders. They are turning it around and at this rate things may be somewhat normal there for Christmas. There is fucking light at the end of the tunnel. Get it under control now, save as many lives as possible and we could look towards normalcy mid 2021. These businesses are suffering regardless of what we do. Shut 'em down, give them relief funds and we can start looking forward to getting out of this.
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Germany case numbers seem to have some heavy daily up and down, but France looks like they dropped like a rock. Hopefully not just a mirage of less tests, but if they can stabilize with the lockdowns that would be big.

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am I wrong to think that we are getting to the point where we either lockdown or lose christmas? / it may already be too late?
 
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