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Re:SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vac... by orra on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:16PM (#29004932)
No, I don't think Comirnaty is any better! I am however relatively partial to Spikevax, aka Moderna: at least Spikevax is easily pronounceable.

I suppose you mean the vaccine names are mainly useful for regulatory purposes, because the general population will continue to name the vaccines after the manufacturer or researchers?

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vac... by palae on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:36PM (#29005194)
As a native French speaker, I would say Comirnaty is actually easier to pronounce than Spikevax, and I suspect it might be similar in other Romance languages.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vac... by orra on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:01PM (#29005530)
Intéressant. Sorry, I was being pretty anglocentric.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vac... by palae on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:16PM (#29005711)
Pas de problème ;) Now I'm thinking about it, finding a name that is easily pronounced in many languages is probably a fun but not that trivial task.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vac... by selcuka on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:58PM (#29008003)
CoronaVac (by Sinovac) sounds pretty accent-agnostic.
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