Whoa!!

[angrychair]

Did Fauci just say we potentially have a cure for the common cold?!?

And SARS viruses in general?

[brush]

1. Wow. That's big.

[panader0]

2. I've heard that the mRNA platform may be used against cancer too.

[bamagal62]

3. Where did you see that?

That’s amazing.

[angrychair]

7. Latest CDC briefing

Fauci's part of the briefing was about a pan-SARS vaccine development.

[Hugin]

8. I'd heard they had been working on one.

I guess it definitely covers all of the so-called corona viruses.

[angrychair]

10. He soft-peddled it

As still needing human trials...only been tested on mice and monkeys...so waiting on human trails to verify.

[NightWatcher]

4. Imagine what we'd cure if we threw some of the money we threw at Covid at......

Science gets to spike the football and gloat for a while after this. We should be researching cancer relief, diabetes, HIV, lupus.... with the urgency that we did with Covid. Science cured this shit in less than two years.

[MerryHolidays]

6. Even less than 2 years

The Moderna vaccine was developed in January 2020 if I am reading this correctly!

Design

In January 2020, Moderna announced development of an RNA vaccine, named mRNA-1273, to induce immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Moderna's technology uses a nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) compound named mRNA-1273. Once the compound is inside a human cell, the mRNA links up with the cell's endoplasmic reticulum. The mRNA-1273 is encoded to trigger the cell into making a specific protein using the cell's normal manufacturing process. The vaccine encodes a version of the spike protein with a modification called 2P, in which the protein includes two stabilizing mutations in which the original amino acids are replaced with prolines, developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Vaccine Research Center. Once the protein is expelled from the cell, it is eventually detected by the immune system, which begins generating efficacious antibodies. The mRNA-1273 drug delivery system uses a PEGylated lipid nanoparticle drug delivery (LNP) system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderna_COVID-19_vaccine

[panader0]

5. "Meet the Black female scientist at the forefront of the covid-19 development"--Kizzmekia Corbett

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-development-kizzmekia-corbett/

[Demovictory9]

9. wow

[cyclonefence]

11. Vaccine is not the same as cure

Vaccine prevents; cure cures.