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So it sounds like the Moderna vaccine, for which I signed up to be a guinea pig, isn't one of them. Cool.The good news is that many of the COVID-19 vaccines in the testing phase do not use an adjuvant, or if they do, use ingredients other than squalene, demonstrating that adjuvants can even be produced without squalene. As of October 2nd, there are 42 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation, and 151 in pre-clinical evaluation, according to the WHO. Of these vaccines, 19 use adjuvants, and 5 of those adjuvants are shark squalene based (GSK, Clover Biopharmaceuticals, Seqirus/University of Queensland/CSL, Medicago Inc. and Farmacologós veterinarios SAC/Universidad Peruana Cayetana Heredia). We know of at least one adjuvant, called “Matrix-M”, which is a saponin-based adjuvant. Saponin is a plant-derived ingredient. However, there is not much transparency as to the ingredients of many of these vaccines and adjuvants, so it is difficult to know exactly the composition or ingredients of some of the other adjuvants.
Or maybe synthesize the necessary ingredient?
At this point it appears that the USA death toll may surpass the sharks?500.000 sharks dead instead of 500.000 humans dead (or much more, depending on the scenario).
Despite my love for sharks, I have no doubt that it is better to kill sharks than humans...