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Moderna says new Covid-19 variant shot will be ready by August

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The company’s official press release [1] provides more details on neutralizing titers against BA.4/BA.5 which are the emerging Omicron variants today vs. BA.1 which was the original Omicron variant. The result is noteworthy in light of recent research [2].

[1]: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder...

[2]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2206576

Yeah, sure. I'll get whatever. By August who knows if it'll do any good, but my immune system won't mind the workout.

I had COVID a couple weeks back. I'm triple vaccinated. It was like a moderately bad cold. If vaccines provide me with assurances that every bout I have with it will be just that, I'll still get them. But I'm pretty over doing just about anything else.

I'm quadruple vaccinated, I got COVID again. It was.. Thankfully..

I'm quintuple vaccinated...

No one is saying that this will go otherwise, including Moderna.

Anecdata: the people I know that keep catching COVID very much seem to be the ones that took the gene therapy being misleadingly described as a vaccine.

What about the mechanics of an mRNA vaccine qualify it as a "gene therapy"?

Please be specific.

Data beats anecdata- and in Santa Clara county unvaxxed are 6-9 times more likely to be infected.

Here in the UK the authorities very quickly stopped publishing the raw data when it rather inconveniently started undermining their narrative that the vaccine is the best thing since sliced bread, makes you funnier, sexier and more intelligent, increases your sexual prowess etc etc.

It will help if you actually have citations. The data from silicon valley is very loud and clear

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-case-rates-vaccination-...

Of course, getting a free shot to avoid a massive pandemic for public health is a grave violation of all the rights of humanity and must be protested, made fun of, memed as q demonstration of superior innumerate intelligence /s

FYI:

Covid-19 Vaccines Candidates in Clinical Trials : https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/

Awesome. I hope that I won't have to wait long in line to get it.

PSA: This site hijacks the back button.

Yuck! Thanks for the warning though!

That's only a problem for the few that actually read the articles...

Great, but no thanks!

Sign me up. I’m already on the annual flu vaccine train. Frankly I don’t want to have to miss work for a week, and there’s no way to know if I’d have a light case or not.

(Side note: got influenza a month ago and was sick for a week+. Freakin a flu sucks.)

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