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Stephen Hooper's avatar

We will be lucky is we survive RFK Jr.'s stupidity.

Karen Schmidt's avatar

That guy is the most unhealthiest looking human being I know. And what’s up with his voice. I can’t stand looking at him, I can stand listening to his B.S., and he’s a a f’ing lawyer, for God’s sake. His father must be very ashamed of him, joining along with someone like tRump. He’s a ruination.

Dr. Robert Duff's avatar

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Carol's avatar

I agree with almost every point you made, Angie, except that when mRNA vaccines were designed to exclusively target the spike, hopefully to elicit nAbs, nothing was known about the adaptive cellular response to the virus infection.

Like many other respiratory virus infections "internal" viral proteins are predominant in the T cell specificity. Inducing CTLs is essential to contain and clear the infection if the virus slipped thru the Ab present. A bivalent mRNA vaccine (both spike and one or more internal viral gene products) should have been the next stage of vaccine development, BUT the "vision" was too narrow.

Every "innovation" Bobby and his lackeys have made will make us sicker, despite their allegations of benefit.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Are there published details of the 22 BARDA contracts?

Mco's avatar

Angie, Remember BASF? "We don't make the products you buy. We make the products you buy better." Remember Ad Council PSAs? "Only you can prevent forest fires" Maybe the Ad Council could help convey your message.

David Meadow's avatar

You go girl. Can’t thank you enough for your truthful information. Hopefully Bobbie doesn’t kill us all.

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Aug 6, 2025
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Carol 947's avatar

Redundancy is key to overall success of any system. Fighting pandemics and bioterrorism? Two or three different state-of-the-art platforms for vaccines makes more sense than going back to old technology. Thank all of you immunologists for your work and commitment.

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Aug 7, 2025
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen's avatar

The safety profile of self-administered vaccinia-vectored vaccines would be unacceptable

Carol 947's avatar

Also I’m a different Carol than a previous commenter.