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There's already been large scale phase 3 trials, and we've deal with vaccines for decades, they're not entirely novel and unknown each time.
by MikeCapone 5y ago
There's already been large scale phase 3 trials, and we've deal with vaccines for decades, they're not entirely novel and unknown each time.
- ttesttom 5y agoThe phase 3 trial for JnJ/Janseen had only ~44k participants whereas here we are talking on the order of ~1 per million (that are reported as of today)
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago> we've deal with vaccines for decades I don’t think that’s accurate in this case. The type of vaccine that J&J released had up until months ago only ever been deployed in animals. IIRC pigs had a problem with corona viruses that we solved” The J&J is not a heap of dead virus like the common ones we have had forever. But a live harmless (we think) virus dolled up to look like Rona Corona.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoLive harmless vaccines aren't anything new. Some of the TB vaccines from the 60s are of that variety. Live virus vaccines have safely been used for at least the past 5 decades. Stop spreading bullshit.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoOk. Well, perhaps you aren’t actually aware of what the J&J is. I enjoyed the part about spreading bullshit though, good one. No, there have been no previous live viruses that have been genetically modified to look like other viruses (embedding Covid spike proteins) injected in humans before three months ago in any scale. We have treated animals with exactly this however, including pigs against piggy rona. I recommend reading the whole post next time, not just stopping at “live virus”.