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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:06AM (#22811815)
No it doesn’t which is the reason why the idea is more than an idea for another vaccine. Even if it did it, it would be a ecological solution that would mean we could stop vaccinating in the future - a bit like how we were able to stop vaccinating for smallpox once the attenuated viral vaccine drove it to extinction in the wild.
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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by mrfusion on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @04:23PM (#22816679)
Why would it need less trials than a vaccine? Are there special regulations?
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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:34PM (#22817418)
Because it is natural. You don’t need permission from the FDA to catch a natural virus.
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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by mrfusion on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:54PM (#22817611)
Aren’t a lot of vaccines just weakened versions of natural viruses?

Insulin is natural, would not they require testing before it could be used to treat a new disease?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:07PM (#22818161)
Yes many (most) viral vaccines are weakened versions of natural viruses, but the weakened versions were created in the lab.

Yes insulin is natural, but it needs to be processed and purified via a lab process (if from pigs) or grown up in a vat of cells for the human form.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by mrfusion on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:13PM (#22818210)
Wow that’s a huge loophole then. If true you might be on to something. That’s pretty cool.

It’s also sad we have to go to these Herculean lengths to bypass the slowness of the FDA.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:04PM (#22818519)
Yep. I do think there will be some major changes out of this experience that will change how the FDA and the whole medical system works. Things that were “impossible” before like telemedicine were suddenly able to be implemented.
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