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wrbtrader · Dec 22, 2021

Vaccines work well in North America to minimize the risk of Hospitalization and Death.

Currently, most states have increasing hospitalizations and deaths in those that are not vaccinated.

The US Army Walter Reid has a history of good work on vaccinations in the history of the United States. They had the first organized vaccination program since the revolutionary war...fighting smallpox.

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gwb-trading · Dec 22, 2021

To provide some context -- it appears that mRNA vaccines are still good at stopping the spread of Omicron (but less effective) however non-mRNA vaccines (Astra, J&J, plus vaccines from China & Russia) appear to not stop the spread as all. All of this, of course, based on initial studies and this information could change. However the non-mRNA vaccine manufacturers are rushing ahead with updated vaccines to target Omicron.

AstraZeneca, Oxford aim to produce Omicron-targeted vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...-work-omicron-targeted-vaccine-ft-2021-12-21/

Frederick Foresight · Dec 22, 2021

UsualName · Dec 22, 2021

UsualName said:
In today’s episode of I didn’t see that coming, US Army, Walter Reid is about to drop a SARS/Covid vaccine that protects against ALL variants:

https://www.defenseone.com/technolo...ctive-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/
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I should edit this statement as it reads poorly but I can’t so here is the correction: SARs/Covid vaccine that protects against all KNOWN variants.

It’s a unique approach they have developed over at USAWR. They’re using a multi faced protein to attach various spikes from the known strains of Covid. Interesting.

UsualName · Dec 22, 2021

gwb-trading said:
To provide some context -- it appears that mRNA vaccines are still good at stopping the spread of Omicron (but less effective) however non-mRNA vaccines (Astra, J&J, plus vaccines from China & Russia) appear to not stop the spread as all. All of this, of course, based on initial studies and this information could change. However the non-mRNA vaccine manufacturers are rushing ahead with updated vaccines to target Omicron.

AstraZeneca, Oxford aim to produce Omicron-targeted vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...-work-omicron-targeted-vaccine-ft-2021-12-21/
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We’ll see but it’s looking like shots twice yearly at least for the next couple of years.

ipatent · Dec 22, 2021

WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis: ‘No country can boost its way out of the pandemic’

WHO officials criticized blanket Covid vaccine booster programs as poor countries struggle to obtain initial immunization shots.

The officials warning vaccine inequality could lead to the emergence of more mutant variants.

The comments from the WHO come as health officials in the U.S. promote vaccine booster shots amid a surge in Covid cases caused by the omicron strain.

ipatent · Dec 22, 2021

FDA Releases More Data On "Adverse Reactions" To Pfizer Vaccine

ph1l · Dec 22, 2021

A new type of vaccine may be coming soon.
https://www.defenseone.com/technolo...ctive-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say
Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
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DECEMBER 21, 2021

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Updated on Dec. 22 to add information from Walter Reed officials about testing the vaccine against the Omicron variant.

Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.

The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of its potential variants as well.

Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One on Tuesday. The new vaccine will still need to undergo phase 2 and phase 3 trials.

"We're testing our vaccine against all the different variants, including Omicron," Modjarrad said.

On Wednesday, Walter Reed officials said in a statement that its vaccine “was not tested on the Omicron variant,“ but later clarified in an email to Defense One that while the recently discovered variant was not part of the animal studies, it is being tested in the lab against clinical human trial samples. These "neutralization assays" test whether antibodies can inhibit the growth of a virus.

"We want to wait for those clinical data to be able to kind of make the full public announcements, but so far everything has been moving along exactly as we had hoped,” Modjarrad said.

Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein.

‘This May Not Be The Big One’: Army Scientists Warn of Deadlier Pandemics to Come

The vaccine’s human trials took longer than expected, he said, because the lab needed to test the vaccine on subjects who had neither been vaccinated nor previously infected with COVID.

Increasing vaccination rates and the rapid spread of the Delta and Omicron variants made that difficult.

“With Omicron, there's no way really to escape this virus. You're not going to be able to avoid it. So I think pretty soon either the whole world will be vaccinated or have been infected,” Modjarrad said.

The next step is seeing how the new pan-coronavirus vaccine interacts with people who were previously vaccinated or previously sick. Walter Reed is working with a yet-to-be-named industry partner for that wider rollout.

“We need to evaluate it in the real-world setting and try to understand how does the vaccine perform in much larger numbers of individuals who have already been vaccinated with something else initially…or already been sick,” Modjarrad said.

He said nearly all of Walter Reed’s 2,500 staff have had some role in the vaccine’s nearly-two-year development.

“We decided to take a look at the long game rather than just only focusing on the original emergence of SARS, and instead understand that viruses mutate, there will be variants that emerge, future viruses that may emerge in terms of new species. Our platform and approach will equip people to be prepared for that.”
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elderado · Dec 23, 2021

gwb-trading · Dec 23, 2021

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This has got to be one of the idiotic things posted on the Internet recently. It is literally a call for people to kill themselves rather than getting vaccinated.

First let's take a look at the facts. South Africa has the largest data set regarding Omicron at this time. There are a large number of hospitalized patients in South Africa with Omicron. 6% of the these patients are in ICU. The majority of patients in ICU do not survive.

While the percentage of those hospitalized with Omicron may be lower than Delta and the percentage in ICU has dropped from above 18% with Delta to 6% with Omicron -- the misery, severe illness and death with Omicron is still high due to the sheer numbers.

Trying to claim that Omicron causes "no hospitalizations", "no critical patients", and "no oxygenation" is absurd and we should just "get everyone exposed" is the height of stupidity.