Moderna Announces it has Shipped Variant-Specific Vaccine Candidate to NIH for study

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Moderna Announces it has Shipped Variant-Specific Vaccine Candidate, mRNA-1273.351, to NIH for Clinical Study

https://investors.modernatx.com/new...unces-it-has-shipped-variant-specific-vaccine

Moderna has already made a specific vaccine for the South African variant, and they're starting phase I trials!

Wow!!! This is fantastic news, and so fast! I'm a fan of this company! American ingenuity as its best. This is our domestic vaccine-maker, 100% American, and supported by the NIH. Way to go! From their press release:

"Moderna has announced that it has completed manufacturing of clinical trial material for its variant-specific vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273.351, against the SARS-CoV-2 variant known as B.1.351 first identified in the Republic of South Africa, and has shipped doses to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Phase 1 clinical trial that will be led and funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)."

Moderna is also studying "a multivalent booster candidate, mRNA-1273.211, which combines mRNA-1273, Moderna’s authorized vaccine against ancestral strains, and mRNA-1273.351 in a single vaccine."

I'm greatly encouraged by these news, thinking that we will after all beat this virus and avoid a huge resurgence of the disease due to new variants.

The FDA has signaled that it won't require all three phases of trials for tweaked vaccines based on existing approved vaccines, maybe even just phase 1.

I hope this phase 1 concludes fast, the FDA approves the shot, and it is given as a booster.

 

Wonderful news! I assume if they can produce variant-specific strains quickly then this will be more effective against both infection rate and symptoms?*





*should the virus still take hold

 

Yep, as I said before, they beauty of the mRNA technology is how easy it is to adapt the sequence to the mutated virus. When I got my second shot yesterday, they said to not laminate the vaccination card, because they left spaces on it for booster shots. That's exactly for those reasons of the variants emerging.

BTW: It is nice to have a fellow scientist on this board. I am trained as a Chemist, but briefly taught renal and respiratory physiology during my first faculty appointment at a medical school. I am still astounded that they let me do this, as in having NO medical education. I probably learned more from it than the students, I was literally one week ahead of the class in knowledge. Talk about a crash course in learning by doing.

 

Yes, I like having you here, too.

 

Yes, that is correct.

 

Golly, Moderna would never deceive us!

It would never describe a gene editing drug, for example, as a vaccine.

 

Time to stop with the conspiracy theories.

 

It is a conspiracy theory to use proper definitions? Egads man!

 

Except that those vaccines do not do any gene editing. Give it up, man.

 

With my now extensive Ignore list I miss part of these discussions. Are you saying that some debate opponent is implying that these vaccines alter human genes? LOL. The things that lay people (with an agenda) say...

 

Yes, that is what the latest meme is: mRNA vaccines are not really vaccines, but gene editing tools. You can probably guess who is posting this.

 

Of course they are gene-editing tools. You know, the idea that there is an mRNA string there, which stays outside of the cellular nucleus, doesn't interact at all with the human genes, and only results in the making of a specific viral protein and then degrades rapidly, it totally fake.

You didn't know? What actually is in these vaccines is a gene-editing microchip, put there by Bill Gates. It gets activated via the 5G network. We are so fortunate that tinfoil hats prevent the chip from being activated! I don't understand why store owners get upset when I try to enter a store without a facemask but with a tinfoil hat. Don't they know that tinfoil hats are much more protective than facemasks?

I mean, it's true that facemasks do help with stopping George Soros from using facial recognition software against us, but nothing beats a tinfoil hat.

I also don't understand why these people keep thinking that these vaccines teach the human cells how to make the virus' S proteins. What virus? There is no virus. It's a hoax! It's an excuse to get the microchips into us so that Bill Gates and George Soros plus the pedophile baby-eating devil-worshipping Democratic cabal can control the world!

But don't worry. Trump will get inaugurated on March 4th and there will be mass executions of all these pedophiles. QAnon said it.

People say that 520,000 have died. No way! Either these supposed cadavers are actors, or the evil doctors have changed the death certificates of people who died of car crashes, to say that they died of this hoax of a virus. Apparently the evil doctors make millions out of this scam. It's weird because my wife's hairdresser's dog walker's cousin who works for a hospital billing department keeps saying that doctors get paid by procedures, not by the diagnoses that they issue on death certificates, but I'm sure the evil doctors have found some way to cheat the system. My wife's hairdresser's dog walker's cousin keeps saying that this is crazy because doctors won't get involved in fraud that would get them disciplined by their State Medical Boards, and it makes even less sense because it would be for absolutely no gain whatsoever, but I know better.

How do I know all of the above? I saw it on YouTube. Peer-reviewed scientific papers? Pfftt... they are all fake. Only YouTube has the correct information. Those who believe in peer-reviewed scientific papers are sheeple.

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OK, how am I doing, reproducing the position of people I have on Ignore?

 

Obviously you are not into definitions for the words you use, but some of us are. Desperate is as desperate does.

The injections are not vaccines in the traditional legal and medical definitions.

You can fool yourself QN, but you can't fool those paying attention.

mRNA injections are not vaccines. You have fallen for the sleight-of-hand, but I have not.

 

Quite a few dissenting virologists and immunologists disagree with you. Because they are censored by TPTB, most likely they are correct.

 

Who is censoring them?

In any case, if it were so easy to inject mRNA to do gene editing, genetic diseases would be a thing of the past. However, it is not that easy, because injecting mRNA does not result in gene editing. To actually DO gene editing, you need something like CRISPR/CAS.

 

Exactly.

 

mRNA injections have not been used on humans before. Those who take the injections are the medical equivalent of crash test dummies.

There is no empirical evidence to support a word you posted.

Who censored them? The same people who've censored all whistleblowers for the last year--the guardians of the Official Narrative. Those people Edward Bernays referred to a century ago. Those who Goebbels inspired. Those who mold our minds, form our tastes, and suggest our ideas. Those whose names we've never heard of, the movers and shakers behind the scenes in the Great American Propaganda Machine.

 

Not true. A blood transfusion is a mRNA injection (blood contains mRNA). Does a blood transfusion lead to gene editing? Yes or no?

 

To edit DNA:
We use clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the enzyme Cas9 to cut the DNA, then we trick the cell's natural repair mechanisms to insert the sequences we want. So, after the cut, the cell will try to repair by using a short strand of DNA as a template. We can supply the DNA template so that it ends up there to write-in a gene or correct a mutation.
We used to use transcriptor activated-like effector nuclease (TALEN) technology and zinc finger arrays. The newer technology above is more efficient.
These mRNA vaccines don't do that. Not even close.
It is funny to have a lay person here spouting nonsense, unlike Quantum Nerd who knows what he is saying.

 

You are doing it great.
But you forgot, that tin hat and lights up your arse, creates an interference with the zinc and dewormer, which neutralizes any virus and burns up those Nano chips.
But don't eat a Pizza and potato chips while doing so, because it will prevent the reflection from the tin hat and there for, the virus doe not get killed and the Nano chip will not burn up.
Garlic eaten during harvest moon helps against all viruses and do not forget the zinc.
Very important

 

Which key on my keyboard starts that editing tool ?

 

GREAT
A vaccine for each variant!

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Make mine ivermectin + flumadine


Moi
And Chicken soup too

 

at least you will be de-wormed

 

mRNA is not naturally occurring. It is created by man. Therefore it is not in normal blood.

Your first sentence is untrue. mRNA is what Moderna has been working on for years. Some describe it as gene therapy technology.

Those taking the injection are the first humans it has been tried on. I wish them all the best of luck.

 

Haha, priceless. What do you think is the message that is necessary for translating DNA into proteins? Maybe you should actually try reading an intro bio textbook first, before you post about gene editing on the internet. Hint: You ingest mRNA every time you eat something. Maybe you should stop eating.

Folks, don't listen to those anti-vaxxers, who are trying to scare you into refusing the covid vaccine. As can be seen is this thread, they have ZERO clue about the actual science.