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[uncfnp]

Headline in medical journal...


Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine immunity to stay at least a year

 

[apenland01]

I was supposed to be in group 1A here, but since my company is based in North Carolina and I don't technically work for any of the local hospitals or clinics I go into every day, I got skipped over. I'm registered for sometime in the next couple of weeks, so we will see how it goes....

 

[nippurmagnum]

In short, it's because governments have poured money into it in an amount greater and at a rate faster than any vaccine before it. The money, the reduction in red tape and a large willing pool of trial volunteers means the process simply went faster, no shortcuts were taken.

The other reason the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were developed so quickly is that the mRNA technology on which they were based was developed over a number of years, and was fortunately at the ready when COVID came along.

I volunteered for the Moderna vaccine trial three months ago, and got the two shots. From what I could see, no shortcuts were being taken. The follow-up/monitoring was very detailed.

 

[apenland01]

Most of these are SARS round 1 vaccines. The work had pretty much all been done and it was just a matter of tweaking it to Covid and getting it into some arms to prove efficacy and safety....