FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedules for Covid-19 vaccines

Re:FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedule... by dcolkitt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:29PM (#25650592)

All of the mRNA vaccines target the spike protein. Coronavirus spike protein mutations have only ever been observed to occur in bats- never humans. Therefore the number of vaccinated people will almost assuredly not increase the likelihood of a resistant strain.

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Re:FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedule... by foolmeonce on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:16PM (#25652599)

I would accept a similar kind of reasoning in an argument towards caution, but not in an argument for seeing what happens with prolonged partial but insufficient immunity. Aside from near certainty that a change to the target protein is game over, we have no idea what other mutations could render immune responses triggered by the vaccines worthless, and I don't see the ethics in an experiment to find these mutations.

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