Re:Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials
by Engineering-MD on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:31PM
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I think some robust citation is needed for this.
Re:Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials
by rincebrain on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:14AM
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The concept in question is original antigenic sin [1], and is real, though it's unclear whether it applies to immunity in this case.
Re:Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials
by Engineering-MD on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:50PM
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That’s interesting, thank you for the reference.
Re:Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials
by abarrettwilsdon on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:30PM
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This is not an accurate speculation.
They try to predict flu strains because it is prohibitive to identify and produce vaccines for every strain in time for flu season each year.
By your assertion, the entire notion of yearly flu shots would be irrelevant.
That's why you can't take vaccine for all strains of influenza and if prediction of which strain is going to be prevalent is wrong and you take wrong vaccine you can't do much about it.
Now, the Covid-19 vaccines are different mechanism so I don't know if or how this translates. For now what I read about the way the mechanism is built on some of the vaccines is that these should really be effective even if there are large changes to the virus. But there are of course always specific mechanisms and sequences that the immune system requires to recognize and act on virus and so there can never be universal vaccine.