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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by samus on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:09AM (#30650113)
Let's say we wait until only 1 out of 10000 cases world-wide is caused by a non-Omicron strain. Then, an Omikron-specific booster would be worth it. Otherwise, we are just playing whack-a-mole with other strains.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by jagger27 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:57AM (#30650311)
What if we had multivalent mRNA vaccines like the HPV vaccine? Gardasil first covered three different strains, then later was bumped to nine, hence Gardasil-9. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by samus on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:55PM (#30653794)
HPV viruses are DNA viruses, which means they evolve way slower than Corona viruses. This makes it easier to identify strains that are worth developing a vaccine against. Also, the mRNA technology and/or the production lines are probably not yet capable of producing multivalent vaccines.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by jagger27 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:00PM (#30653836)
A quick Google for "multivalent covid vaccine" shows trials in progress and articles from as early as 2021, so I'd say there's progress happening here.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by samus on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:11PM (#30653929)
Good news!!
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by astrange on Monday March 14, 2022 @12:13AM (#30668454)
There are some in development, but they don't use mRNA.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/vaccines/articles/the-hun...

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