Spellbound454
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Post by Spellbound454 on Feb 7, 2021 5:43:01 GMT -5
Professor Sarah Gilbert.... whose team developed the AZ Oxford vaccine has been on TV this morning. She has a vaccine which is effective against the SA strain....... in something she called "Strain Change".... It will be available to put in to peoples arms in the Autumn in a booster shot. They are testing a lot of genomic sequences for the different strains so are keeping on top of it........ and the vaccine will be altered accordingly. If the virus mutates too much it wont be able to infect people because it will lose its sticky proteins and wont be able to get a hold. I expect other vaccine developers are doing the same..... and there are more things in the pipeline. Once the vaccine is developed it can be tweaked to suit whatever is in circulation. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09699wz
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Feb 17, 2021 20:54:53 GMT -5
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Apr 14, 2021 14:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Apr 14, 2021 14:41:27 GMT -5
“But according to a new Israeli study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, the same variant was able to evade some of the protection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Boosters and new versions of vaccines that target the variants are already being explored. Pfizer-BioNTech is testing a third booster shot of its vaccine on fully vaccinated people.
"The flexibility of our proprietary mRNA vaccine platform allows us to technically develop booster vaccines within weeks, if needed," Sahin said in a release.”
From same article.
I just got my Pfizer shot. Sitting in the 15 Minute post wait zone. Just as I sat down to get the shot, someone in the wait zone collapsed. They have surrounded the area with screens, but otherwise not seeming serious....
Hopefully not much side effects for me. I have late meeting I need to crunch some numbers for as soon as I get home, then need to do an RI project and send to client.
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Post by haapai on Apr 14, 2021 15:14:36 GMT -5
Rukh, we have no idea which variant is being discussed in the thing that you have quoted. Nor do we have any idea what you are quoting. I suspect that you are talking about either B.1.531 (South Africa) or P1 (Brazil). I honestly don't know which one you are talking about and it matters.
OTOH, you might just be doing really, really well under the circumstances. I made sure to bring a purse-pack of tissues to my first jab and nobody around me collapsed.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 14, 2021 16:05:46 GMT -5
I also read that there is a California strain that is overtaking the UK variant and can somehow cause the UK variant to not spread fast - I am probably not explaining this clearly www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-12/california-coronavirus-variant-preventing-spring-surge-herd-immunity"Part of the reason for that is that the California variant may be dominating the U.K. variant in the state. Of virus samples that have been genomically sequenced cumulatively, more than 12,000 cases of the California variant — also known as the West Coast variant (B.1.427/B.1.429) — have been identified in California, compared with 980 of the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7). The California variant is believed to be 20% more transmissible than the conventional coronavirus strains, but the U.K. variant is thought to be 50% more transmissible and more likely to cause worse illness. Some experts have said they would presume that the U.K. variant would crowd out the California variant. But Rutherford said, somewhat counterintuitively, that the California variant may be somehow keeping the U.K. variant at bay."
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Spellbound454
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Post by Spellbound454 on Apr 14, 2021 16:29:51 GMT -5
Some of the variants are spontaneously developing the same mutation E484K SA and Brazilian P1 both have it.
We have got an outbreak of it from someone who came from SA (40 cases)... and they are having to surge test everyone in the area. Obviously a bit of a worry as our vaccine efficacy for it is reduced.
They have been saying this could happen for weeks, yet haven't updated the Red List Countries........ and now its here.
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