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Both of these look like “cool hacker names” from a movie…

• orra 5y ago
  Frankly, I think the names are terrible. Great vaccines and all, but terrible branding.
  • oezi 5y ago
    Yes, and it was only when the AZ vaccine (Jansen?) showed a trombosis risk that all manufacturers started to fokus on branding their vaccines to potentially distance themselves, or was this a timely coincidence? Why couldn't they just be called Moderna/Pfizer/... Covid Vaccine?
    • angelzen 5y ago
      Same reason we have Intel Pentium Core2 Duo E8400.
    • maxerickson 5y ago
      The use of the brand names came with government approvals.
      • orra 5y ago
        It wasn't a precondition. Compare the approved vaccines now[1] with the archive back in March 2021[2]. [1] https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/treatments-vaccines/covid-19-vaccines https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/publi... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210305190828/https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/treatments-vaccines/covid-19-vaccines https://web.archive.org/web/20210305190828/https://www.ema.e...
  • michaelmior 5y ago
    Neither names are really intended to be the "brand" of the vaccine. That said, I don't think Comirnaty is really much better.
    • mattkrause 5y ago
      Specifically, ChAdOx1 is the vector, a platform for making vaccines: there are vaccine candidates using it for TB, MERS, Zika, flu, and a bunch of other things (see here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=ChAdOx1&cntry=&state=&city=&dist= https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=ChAdOx1&cn...) In more normal times, most people outside of R&D would never encounter the name.
      • orra 5y ago
        Exciting that they're using it as a platform to develop other vaccines. But I still maintain the official names are ridiculous. “Vaxzevria” is the trademark used by AstraZeneca in the EU. (As you say, not ChAdOx1.) And yes, the general population end up seeing Vaxzevria, on their vaccine information forms, and online at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxzevria-previously-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxzevria-...
        • waterhouse 5y ago
          Someone on Twitter says: "Galaxy brain take: Pfizer intentionally picked a terrible & unpronounceable brand name because it wants people to keep calling it "the Pfizer vaccine"". (I personally will just pronounce it as "Moriarty", that being the closest recognizable name.)
          • mattkrause 5y ago
            That seems....very plausible. For other drugs, an amazing amount of effort is devoted to finding something that a) sounds "promising" but b) without making legally-untenable promises. The name `Viagra`, famously, is supposed to evoke ideas of vigor and Niagra (Falls). Pfizer had some trouble with Champix (varenicline), which some regulators thought was too close to "champion", and so was called Chantix in some markets instead.
• _3u10 5y ago
  ChAdOx1 is the guy who gets the girl lol.
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  • throwawayswede 5y ago
    Only initially, then he turns out to be a douche.