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BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
13. Probably
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 01:24 PM
Aug 2021

although you can imagine getting into a cycle of "chasing the variants", and any change in the vaccine entity requires a new approval. The main players have already been working on that to submit - either in conjunction with their final "rolling" full approval data as an amendment to their current EUA, and/or as a separate EUA for the booster alone.

I remember for years I was running several distributed computer programs on my little home computer farm, in addition to SETI, and one of them was a "protein folding" project - "Folding@Home". In fact I literally just did a quick search on them and they are not only still around but they have turned their sights on COVID-19 - https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en-US



Why not!!

What is happening with some of these variants in some cases, are slight modifications to their spike proteins where depending on how they configure themselves as they move through media or a body, the spikes can twist or fold enough to "hide" crucial sections of their protein chain that antibodies could normally attach to, thus allowing the whole thing to survive longer before being targeted, and neutralized.

I'm flabbergasted that we're still doing the PCR test... cadoman Aug 2021 #1
It's not a meaningless test. The polymerase chain reaction tests are the most reliable ways to test JohnSJ Aug 2021 #5
This post is false and inaccurate information and should not be regarded as factual JohnSJ Aug 2021 #7
You are spreading a rumor that originated on Facebook. Stop it. Politicub Aug 2021 #9
Thank-you. I have to wonder if this misinformation is intentional JohnSJ Aug 2021 #15
What are you talking about? lapucelle Aug 2021 #18
So it looks like she got it from a health care provider at the surgical center. nt DURHAM D Aug 2021 #2
The breakthrough cases don't seem that rare here madville Aug 2021 #3
"Such cases are believed to be relatively rare" BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #4
Yep. LisaL Aug 2021 #6
It would be interesting to know if those breakthrough cases were mostly from people who were JohnSJ Aug 2021 #8
I'm hoping more Polybius Aug 2021 #10
Digging through the report, I found this BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #11
Interesting. Thanks. It seems any booster might need to contain something specific for the delta JohnSJ Aug 2021 #12
Probably BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #13
If we could get the remaining 100 million unvaccinated, vaccinated, it would be less likely variants JohnSJ Aug 2021 #14
"relatively rare" is by definition a relative measure Slammer Aug 2021 #16
Exactly BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #17
So as expected the vaccine worked. She had a mild case. GulfCoast66 Aug 2021 #19
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