Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
by aaomidi on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:29PM
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There are vaccines you can get that aren't mRNA based.
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Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
by endisneigh on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:33PM
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I'm genuinely curious if you could sue Google if you got J&J because of their mandate and you happened to be one of the extremely rare folks who got a blood clot from it.
You can sue. It's unlikely that you would win though.
Are there vaccines widely available in the US whose delivery mechanism was well established before 2020? The J&J vaccines are viral vector, a class of vaccines which has only been approved for human use twice before, in presumably small numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine
Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
by thisiscorrect on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:53PM
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Not yet. I believe Novavax's protein subunit vaccine would use the same mechanism as the MMR vaccine. Well outside my domain but my understanding is that you're given a premade dose of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and an adjuvant to boost an immune rsponse to them, instead of producing the spike proteins yourself (as is the case for both mRNA and viral vector vaccines). [1] gives results of their phase 3 trials. The Atlantic [2] gives an overview aimed at a popular audience.
[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107659 [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/novavax-n...