The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by andruby on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:18AM (#26555310)

What do you mean "Vaccines are a relatively new technology"?

We've had vaccines since 1796 [0] when Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox, a terrible disease that we fully eradicated thanks to vaccination. A disease that you and me don't have to worry about because of vaccines.

(Likewise for Cholera, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Meningitis, etc)

Also, trains, cars, planes, cameras, lightbulbs and every invention of Edison are newer technologies than vaccines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_vaccines

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by mamon on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:29PM (#26558439)

Maybe they mean "mRNA vaccines"? COVID vaccine is the first of this kind, so some side effects, especially long term ones, are still unknown. It's still unlikely that they would be very serious but we won't know for sure until 10 years from now.

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by andruby on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:59AM (#26566571)

In case people really have concerns about the newer mRNA vaccines, perhaps they can choose the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is a more traditional one.

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by hda111 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:17PM (#26570155)

Both are more or less new. The AZ method is only known from Ebola vaccines but they were not not used globally.

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