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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by dnautics on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:49AM (#26792935)
> Vaccines are not the stock market

How many genetically engineered adenovirus vaccines have there been before?

The vaccines that are your prior are typically attenuated or inactivated virus.

Majorly different category, we are in untreaded space (I'm still planning on getting one)

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by shezi on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:22AM (#26793472)
Apparently there were studies on adenovirus 5 vector vaccines against HIV in 2007. The vaccine was not successful, but I cannot find any data on long-term adverse effects.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by Ericson2314 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:03AM (#26793136)
You realize attenuated virusues are also genetically modified? Just via artificial selection.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by lbeltrame on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:13AM (#26793323)
At least one for Ebola, IIRC.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by dnautics on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:02PM (#26794255)
so, no long-term studies.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:14PM (#26794537)
The Ebola vaccine in question has been tested in humans since 2015. How long-term are you looking for?
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by dnautics on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:28PM (#26797785)
more than 5 years? Cancer risk, etc. is probably something decadal in scope.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by lbeltrame on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:37PM (#26797921)
Biology doesn't work like that. Certainly not for replication-deficient adenoviruses used by AZ, Gamaleya and J&J.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by dnautics on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:16PM (#26801846)
Plenty of replication deficient things cause cancer, for example asbestos or igf-1. I highly doubt you can rule out accidental crosstalk between elicited immune antibodies and every oncogenic human receptor.
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