Inhaled Covid vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials

nature.com

13 points·birriel··6 comments

The current push in science due to covid has been remarkable. These specific findings can make https://aspr.hhs.gov/NextGen/Pages/Default.aspx look very very good. Especially given the grants looking into these areas:

https://medicalcountermeasures.gov/nextgen/

Goes to show that if you align incentives, remarkable things can happen.

I wonder how much of the anti-vax movement is more about a rationalization of a fear of needles than anything else. Would there be as many anti-vaxers if vaccines were administered by pill? Inhaled seems even less threatening...

Before Covid, anti-vax referred to someone who rejected all vaccines. Today, the term is also used to describe people who reject only Covid shots.

I speculate the majority of people who rejected Covid shots didn't do so because of the needle.

For me, I initially declined for the same reasons I wait for the first or second point release on new major versions of an OS. Don’t want to deal with the early adopter problems.

Then, by the time it looked like it was proven safe, it didn’t look very effective (in terms of possible benefit to my demographic)

but it is very effective (if not needed against death then at least helpful against long covid). Read as many articles as you want from here: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/

Can I read critical discussion about these articles, or articles with the opposite conclusion?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com