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Old 12-02-2020, 03:31 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Coop View Post
So I’m supposed to believe the vaccine is 90%+ effective after 8 months of development, when the flu vaccine is only 40% effective after 70 years? I’m good on any vaccine, my immune system >>>>>>

Also why would anyone take a vaccine that’s less than 100% effective for a virus with a 99.9% survival rate? THAT MATH DONT ADD UP
The reason why the effectiveness is so high is because they're using the technique described in the op. The vaccine is basically the rna for the protein sequence that creates the virus' spike protein (the thing that lets it attach to cells). These harmless spikes are created and your immune system develops a defense for it. These same antibodies are used against the real virus.

They could develop this quickly because with modern technologies you only need to know the DNA sequence of the virus to build the mRNA. They had that info back in January because you only need a sample of the virus.

I'm going to assume that last part was a joke.
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