Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

Re:Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert by robbiep on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:33PM (#32586063)

Wtf are you getting at? Yes mRNA vaccines are under development for many many other diseases. It’s a new technology. Would you expect the invention of a new technology to have a single application and then be put on a shelf somewhere, perhaps in that secret government warehouse where they store the Ark, and maybe the Lindbergh baby?

FYI mRNA vaccines were first developed 5-10 years prior to the events of the past few years, and deployed in veterinary medicine. Having a global pandemic led to the urgency to adapt them to human conditions where they have saved millions of lives

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Re:Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert by logic_beats_pro on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:07AM (#32589746)

>Having a global pandemic led to the urgency to adapt them to human conditions where they have saved millions of lives

They've been trying for 10 years to get approval for human use. COVID was just the battering ram used to get them authorized for emergency use.

And your last point on saving millions of lives is complete speculation which is unknowable and unprovable. I can just as easily make the claim that cross reactive immunity from a precious Coronaviris infection saved millions of lives.

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