Maynard: Scientists were developing all-new vaccines at rapid speed. The virus behind covid-19 was sequenced in January, and clinical trials of vaccines using messenger RNA started in March. By the end of the year, the US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency-use authorization for these vaccines, and vaccination efforts took off.

Maynard: As things stand today, over 670 million doses of the vaccines have been delivered to people in the US. This is an astonishingly fast turnaround for any new drug. But it follows years of research on the core technology. Scientists and companies have been working on mRNA-based treatments and vaccines for decades. The first experimental treatments were tested in rodents back in the 1990s, for diseases including diabetes and cancer.

Maynard: But while the first approved mRNA vaccines are for covid-19, similar vaccines are now being explored for a whole host of other diseases. Malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and Zika are just some of the potential targets. mRNA vaccines might also be used in cancer treatments tailored to individual people. Here, the idea is to trigger a specific response by the immune system—one that is designed to attack tumor cells in the body. Moderna, the biotech company behind one of the two approved mRNA vaccines for covid-19, is developing mRNA vaccines for RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), HIV, Zika, Epstein-Barr virus, and more. BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer on the other approved mRNA-based covid-19 vaccine, is exploring vaccines for tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, shingles, and flu. Both companies are working on treatments for cancer. And many other companies and academic labs are getting in on the action.

snippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4dd_aWmok

Fleedle: you get myocarditis! You get myocarditis! You get myocarditis!

snippy: Moderna CEO Announces New mRNA Shot for Heart Failure Patients to Help “Grow Back New Blood Vessels”......https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/go-moderna-ceo-announces-new-mrna-shot-heart-failure-patients-help-grow-back-new-blood-vessels/

snippy: wow, 17 percent. That is nearly 1 in 5 kids whomst got the clot shot got fucked. This is from a peer reviewed paper, the European Journal of Pediatrics......https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00431-022-04786-0#abbreviations

Fleedle: the vax helped us through the pandemic by not stopping infection or transmission woohoo!