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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by vkou on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:52PM (#30152356)
> If mRNA vaccine was as magical as it was marketed, we wouldn’t be getting 3-4(and soon 5?) doses of the same vaccine with the emergence of new variants. Rather, there would be delta- and omicron-specific vaccine.

Is this a problem with mRNA, a problem with the approval-for-vaccine-variants process, a problem with funding, or a problem with the politicians who thought COVID would magically go away by August 2021 (Never mind that most of the world was nowhere close to being vaccinated, and the millions of sick people throughout it were happily producing variants)?

I am ignorant on most of these subjects, but I would be surprised if the mRNA part of that was the problem!

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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by f6v on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:04PM (#30152568)
What I’m trying to say is that mRNA vaccines might not be faster to deliver to market because you still need to go though testing and approval.
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by ceejayoz on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:59PM (#30154244)
The annual flu shot indicates there is presumably a "same vaccine, slightly different strain" streamlined procedure that can be used. I'd expect the same to occur with COVID boosters over time.
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