Re:Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
by bsder on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:03PM
(#27467101)
A couple of comments:
The big problem with "natural" infection and response is that you have no idea what your body locked onto and made you immune to.
For example, my mother-in-law had measles 4 times. Her immune system clearly doesn't lock to the same piece as everybody else's.
For Covid, most of the time the lock point is the spike protein, but sometimes it's not. And sometimes it's different pieces of the spike protein. Some of which mutate quite quickly.
So, your immune system is spending a lot of energy "training" to lots of different pieces of the virus. That's what it's supposed to do.
But it's specificity isn't anywhere near as good as the vaccine which is engineered to give you a response to exactly what seems to be the most relevant chunk of the spike protein.
Of course, if the virus mutates that spike protein area, the specificity is useless. However, if that section of the spike protein mutates, the virus also gets a lot less problematic as it seems like it won't be able to bind to the ACE receptors.
The big problem with "natural" infection and response is that you have no idea what your body locked onto and made you immune to.
For example, my mother-in-law had measles 4 times. Her immune system clearly doesn't lock to the same piece as everybody else's.
For Covid, most of the time the lock point is the spike protein, but sometimes it's not. And sometimes it's different pieces of the spike protein. Some of which mutate quite quickly.
So, your immune system is spending a lot of energy "training" to lots of different pieces of the virus. That's what it's supposed to do.
But it's specificity isn't anywhere near as good as the vaccine which is engineered to give you a response to exactly what seems to be the most relevant chunk of the spike protein.
Of course, if the virus mutates that spike protein area, the specificity is useless. However, if that section of the spike protein mutates, the virus also gets a lot less problematic as it seems like it won't be able to bind to the ACE receptors.