Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer

Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by nvahalik on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:06PM (#29570942)

As someone who is very anti-COVID vaccinations, my problem with it isn't the vaccine itself or the underlying technology so much as it's been the plethora of other issues associated with it. The normal processes for drug approval were bypassed and so as a result we have very limited safety data and no long-term >5yr safety data at all.

With something like this, I would expect it to go through those trials and see that we'd have some sort of safety data and further research.

Again, I am actually very positive about mRNA therapies—I just want them to be fully tested and vetted first.

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by standardUser on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:21PM (#29571134)

Yes, though it is funny how until it became a political issue, virtually no one knew anything about the processes by which new drugs made their way into their body.

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by mike00632 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:40PM (#29571349)

It's important to correct this misinformation and point out that "normal processes" were followed. The long approval process delayed the roll out of the vaccine causing hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. If anything, the approval should have gone faster.

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by nvahalik on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:47PM (#29572020)

There were no clinical trials. There is no safety data. Perfectly healthy young people have reported heart problems after getting it.

Let's face it: anyone who takes it is participating in an experiment. It may be that the risks are OK for a lot of people. But obviously there is more to discover.

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by mike00632 on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:28PM (#29597924)

Absolute nonsense. The vaccines were submitted and approved for both FDA EUA and full approval with ample data from clinical trials.

The problem with misinformation is that it took me considerably longer to disprove this bullshit than it did for you to type it.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

https://www.pfizerclinicaltrials.com/find-a-trial?search=Cor...

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by multjoy on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:34PM (#29571279)

So you'd simply let a pandemic rage for five years?

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by gassiss on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:52PM (#29572066)

Just because you don't agree with X doesn't mean you need to have an alternative for it

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by nvahalik on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:44PM (#29572001)

The problem, of course, is that vaccinations don't _end_ pandemics.

If they did, some places would likely be completely free of COVID. However, they are not.

They lessen the effects but many people have pointed out that this whole thing is entirely new territory: We have a flu "vaccination" but the flu us just something people learn to live with.

We have never——ever——forced mass vaccination against a viral respiratory infection. Because we cannot vaccinate it away. COVID is here to stay and I (personally) don't think anything will happen until people contract it enough to get a good natural immunity and then things will go away.

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Re:Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment f... by donkarma on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:38PM (#29572486)

it seems that this was going to happen vaccine or not

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