Is there newer vaccines than those in uh 2020-21?
Yes, they've been updating the vaccine every year to match currently-circulating virus strains. This is about an additional update coming out this fall.
Pretty much the same thing is done with flu vaccines, where you need a periodic update for it to be effective.
I don't get why the shots cannot be combined. They talked about it and then nothing ever seem to materialize.
Moderna has their combined vaccine currently in clinical trials.
would love to get just one shot this fall.
Stir a lil adderal in there for me too home!
Yup. Updates every year, just like flu vaccines. The virus mutates and immune wanes over time.
Do we have a new one yet?
As the article says in the beginning, they come in fall.
Yeah but that would require me reading it...
I know. The headline is tough to get through.
No, not yet. There will probably be one in September or October.
It sucks that we're unlikely to get a vaccine targeting a difficult to change part of the virus by the established mRNA makers. We would probably need a new entity to do it.
The vaccines initially did just that, it just turns out it was able to adapt anyway or they were wrong.
I don't know whether they even had any data on change difficulty. I think it was more like - we needed a vaccine yesterday and Moderna and BioNTech had the mRNA technology just ready to be able to spin up a vaccine quickly. And that was good enough to save a lot of people from severe disease.
They definitely had something, I remember reading about it at the time. it might have involved what they knew about previous coronavirus's as well. Whatever they had though it ended up being wrong.
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