The flu shot is a neutered virus strain that scientists guess on which neutered strain would be most successful that season. They don’t engineer a new flu strain then take the spike protein, model a mRNA packet around said spike protein then inject it into the body causing mass production of said “modeled” spike protein.
no it does, that protein is used in many places. It's present in the lungs, muscles like the heart and a number of other places too. In fact, it's a critical component of placenta formation in Mammals! That's what makes the virus as catching as rhinoviruses--it has a key to many locks, as it were.
IIRC, only government projects are allowed to use gain-of-function.
Pfizer wouldn't be allowed to, so they just called it by a different name. There's also the implication that they might be engineering something and releasing it to increase vax profits.
Usual vaccine development uses the already existing disease, not creating a new one.
Can someone explain to me how this is not what is standard for flu and ebola vaccine development?
The flu shot is a neutered virus strain that scientists guess on which neutered strain would be most successful that season. They don’t engineer a new flu strain then take the spike protein, model a mRNA packet around said spike protein then inject it into the body causing mass production of said “modeled” spike protein.
A spike protein that doesn't naturally appear in nature i might add.
no it does, that protein is used in many places. It's present in the lungs, muscles like the heart and a number of other places too. In fact, it's a critical component of placenta formation in Mammals! That's what makes the virus as catching as rhinoviruses--it has a key to many locks, as it were.
IIRC, only government projects are allowed to use gain-of-function.
Pfizer wouldn't be allowed to, so they just called it by a different name. There's also the implication that they might be engineering something and releasing it to increase vax profits.
Usual vaccine development uses the already existing disease, not creating a new one.