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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by inglor_cz on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:52AM (#28313699)
Safety and speed must usually be balanced in a trade-off, and we are actually used to it, that is why people drive a car, even though it comes with a risk of dying or being maimed.

I have no doubt that some kind of safety-related trials must be run on boosters and that they will be run, but they will likely only take weeks in the future, not months.

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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by kingkawn on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:23AM (#28314566)
You presume the time required is a function of something other than observing the physiologic reaction to the inoculation over an adequate period of time.
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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by f6v on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:12AM (#28313910)
> but they will likely only take weeks in the future, not months.

We need just one Jesse Gelsinger to shut the whole thing down.

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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by inglor_cz on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:18AM (#28313981)
J.G. is a famous case and his death definitely delayed development for a decade or more, but it should be noted that when he died, the technology was extremely untested in humans.

We now have a few hundred million people who got mRNA vaccine and had no trouble. I don't think that even after a death, mRNA would be completely toast. It has already proven its merit.

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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by bewaretheirs on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:05AM (#28314402)
mRNA?

J.G.'s death involved an experimental modified adenovirus (the same family of viruses used as the vector for several non-mRNA COVID vaccines: Johnson & Johnson/Janssen, Astrazenica/Oxford, and Sputnik V).

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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by inglor_cz on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:15AM (#28314493)
The OP was mentioning J.G.'s case as an example of what could happen, too with rushed mRNA vaccines, and that the fallout would be bad.
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