Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
by echelon on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:11PM
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> Both HIV and COVID came from animal hosts originally.
The jury is out on COVID. We don't know.
Even if it was a lab leak it was still probably of animal origin (the Wuhan lab collected and studied coronaviruses from bats).
Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
by GuB-42 on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:40PM
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We know with extremely high probability. It is genetically very close to bat coronaviruses. It is also not the first. Furthermore, a zoonotic coronavirus pandemic was already on the "Disease X" list, so it wasn't completely unexpected.
What we don't know yet is how it jumped from bats to humans. Is it direct? Is there an intermediate host? (pangolin?)
The more reasonable conspiracy theory is that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, possibly as a result of gain of function experiments. But originally, it is still bats, and what they could have done is not something nature is incapable of.
Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
by uratard on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:32AM
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You're a conspiracy theorist and a retard
Would you mind not creating accounts to break HN's rules with like this? It only makes everything worse.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27271796.
Both HIV and COVID came from animal hosts originally. They weren't "bread" by humans.
> Watching covid varriants pop up worries me, but perhaps a quicker to production mRNA vaccine will allow us to remain ahead of it.
Well its possible that covid will mutate to escape the vaccine, its hardly a sure thing and hasn't happened yet (variants dont matter much if existing vaccines take care of them). Its entirely possible that new mRNA vaccines not only would be fast enough, but that we will never actually need them at all.