Coronavirus treatments and vaccines thread

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immunogenic mRNA treatment for pancreatic cancer is now on the back burner because of folklorical and political backlash to COVID vaccines

Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive, along with two of the eight people who did not respond. Two of the responders, including the one who died, had a cancer recurrence; Gustafson’s cancer has not come back.

“The most important finding here is that the people who mount a response to the vaccine live longer than those who do not,” said Dr. William Freed-Pastor, a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Ins ute, who was not involved with the trial. He cautioned, however, that the results come from a very small group of patients. More research is still needed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...ial-rcna331969

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Bhattacharya es CDC study showing COVID vaccines likely kept people out of the hospital

Seems the MAGA solution to politicization is to politicize things top to bottom along Trumpian lines

The study, conducted by C.D.C. scientists, calculated the effectiveness of Covid shots by looking at the vaccination status of people who had sought care at hospitals and emergency rooms. It found that vaccination cut the likelihood of emergency visits due to Covid by 50 percent and of hospitalizations by 55 percent, according to a summary of the study viewed by The New York Times.

It was scheduled to be published on March 19 in The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the C.D.C.’s flagship journal. News of its cancellation was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

Some former C.D.C. officials said it was unusual for the head of the agency to cancel a scientific publication that had already been cleared by the agency’s staff scientists and had been scheduled for publication.

https://archive.is/PGoA6#selection-4753.0-4775.213

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ing studies that show vaccines tend to prevent hospitalization spites not only the concept of public health, but public health itself.

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Sen. Tuberville said Fauci/Operation Warp Speed were responsible for 9 million US deaths

Totally innumerate bull -- the confirmed number is 9 deaths

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Republicans still can't remember who was president in 2020

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“Based on official reported COVID-19 deaths, we estimated that vaccinations prevented 14·4 million(95% credible interval [Crl] 13·7–15·9) deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories between Dec 8, 2020, and Dec 8, 2021.”

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...320-6/fulltext

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most sources have clocked between 1.1 million and 1.2 million total US deaths from COVID since 2020

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before the COVID jab



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...core-ios-share

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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

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mRNA vaccines are a wonder of modern science

An experimental cancer vaccine kept melanoma from coming back. It’s the first successful late-stage mRNA study validating decades of custom-treatment research.

https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/mo...rning-540e9e18

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one could be fussy and say these aren't all cancer vaccines, some are injectable mRNA cancer treatments, both get combined with other therapies, but this is amazing progress in a short period of time

Melanoma vaccine buff.ly/se4UaIf
Triple Negative Breast Cancer vaccine buff.ly/GWKLsQB
Pancreatic Cancer vaccine buff.ly/DkrmSIc
Lung Cancer vaccine buff.ly/ypRyeN2
Glioblastoma vaccine buff.ly/5hM52Gr

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universal flu and pancoronavirus vaccines are under development

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0222092258.htm

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FDA approves updated COVID vaccines, will be available in September

The Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid vaccines on Thursday, clearing the way for manufacturers to ship doses to pharmacies and doctors’ offices.


Moderna and Pfizer, which make the most commonly used Covid vaccines, are expected to begin shipping soon; Pfizer said it would do so “immediately,” and Moderna has done so within days of approval in past years. Sanofi, which distributes a non-mRNA option called Nuvaxovid, said doses would be available in September, with the timing varying by location.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...smid=url-share

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same restrictions as last year

I'm under 60 and had no trouble getting mine at CVS last year without checking any boxes

Moderna approved for all 65+, and for 6 months to 64 with underlying condition that increases risk of severe Covid

Pfizer for all 65+, and 5-64 with underlying condition

Sanofi (Novavax) for all 65+, and 12-64 with underlying condition

What proof is required is going to vary by where you get it

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COVID risk > vaccine risk

oh well

After reports surfaced of rare cases of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, some parents worried that mRNA vaccines might cause heart disease in their children.

But a study published last week in Vaccine looking at more than 4 million children and young adults concludes that those who receive a Pfizer/Biotech COVID-19 vaccine have a lower risk of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart), and death than those who do not.


“Public debate has focused on the cardiac risk of vaccination alone. Our findings reframe that discussion by comparing vaccination risk with infection-associated risk in the same healthcare network,” wrote the authors, led by researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University.


“For patients and families, the key message is that myocarditis was rare after both exposures, but recorded myocarditis, pericarditis, and all-cause mortality were consistently more frequent after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after BNT162b2 vaccination,” they added.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/...s-young-adults