• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    There are some very slight issues with the mRNA vaccines, but it’s not a health concern. The may be slightly less efficacious than a vaccine containing a weakend or inactive coronavirus because the mRNA vaccines work by having your cells produce a very specific protein on part of the virus instead of the whole outer shell (capsid) of the virus, which provides more proteins that your immune system can recognize. This could lead to a narrower “immunity envelope” as the virus evolves over time.

    I’ve had about 8 mRNA shots at this point. If there was a major issue, I’d probably know about it by now.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 hours ago

      I’ve had about 8 mRNA shots at this point. If there was a major issue, I’d probably know about it by now.

      I’ve had 6 as well, but I was more worried about the effect on under 5 year olds :-)

      As I said though, as long as I hear nothing more concrete I have to assume the FDA is simply compromised.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      18 hours ago

      mRNA vaccines are being used to in increasingly successful trials against cancer. There was a recent announcement that they were able to use mRNA technologies to customize a treatment to fight a patient’s specific cancer, which could be used to cure many types of cancer. The discovery is so big, that they think they could use it to create actual vaccines against some cancers.

      They want to ban the most promising cancer research.