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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#30077852)
Neither the post you replied to or I said it applied to omicron. in fact, the parent said that it didn't. The fact that it didnt apply to omnicron, does not mean that it couldn't apply to covid, which is the claim you made.
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by xadhominemx on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:54PM (#30077881)
So it’s about a theoretical future variant?
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:01PM (#30077960)
The point was that it could have happened with Covid-19, and could still happen with Covid-19.

Probably not very likely, but to say Covid-19 is somehow outside the scope of original antigenic sin theory is silly.

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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by xadhominemx on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:38AM (#30083872)
Ok, not sure what point you’re trying to make then. The vaccines worked very well against delta and omicron variants and had we halted vaccinations once variants began to take hold it would have cost millions of lives. There are many thousands of known variants of Covid-19
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:00PM (#30088077)
My only point was to provide correction to your erroneous statement.

>I guess that’s a theoretical possibility for a different virus

Im not trying to claim it applied to omicron, current vaccine efficacy, that we should halt vaccinations, or any other strawman you are trying to put up.

You can simply acknowledge the correction

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