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I don’t think it’s that bad. Remember that children < 12 still can’t get it, which is a good chunk of people.

Also, some people are not antivax, they are afraid of new mRNA technology. When the technology has had more time to bake, they will feel more comfortable.

Finally, Novavax will be coming online soon. That should help with some of the mRNA skeptics.

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> Also, some people are not antivax, they are afraid of new mRNA technology.

then they can get the Janssen (aka Johnson & Johnson) vaccine which is not based on mRNA but an Adenovirus vector.

It’s viral vector which isn’t a traditional vaccine.

Viral vector has only been used before for Ebola. All US vaccines execute custom RNA code that was spliced from the real virus. Viral vector just gets that code in the cell by a different method.

Theoretically, though its far-and-away the most media maligned vaccine, and many clinics have ceased carrying it (I specifically have close contact with a few pharmacists who run rural CVS pharmacies; they sent their entire stock of J&J back, and regional has stopped sending more. its all mRNA).

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