I hoped to see a vaccine available that can be taken as a pill or a mist,
which would avoid some issues that plague both distribution and vaccine
hesitancy. A faster and broader distribution, obviously, would increase
population immunity more rapidly, consequently reducing transmission
dramatically.
Emilia ("Emily") C Arturo
Postdoctoral associate
Laboratory of Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire
Division of Structural Biology & Infectious Diseases
La Jolla Institute for Immunology, California USA
Twitter @moonlighterturo @ljiresearch @EOSpahire
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:07 AM Quyen Hoang <qqho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess that one might need a way to avoid natural mutations that could
> turn B into B’ or B".
>
> Quyen
>
> Quyen Hoang, PhD
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> It would seem to me that it should be possible to generate versions of the
> Covid virus that would:
>
> A. be extremely contagious and yet
> B. be clinically benign, and
> C. confer immunity to the original covid virus.
>
> If, then, this virus could be released, with appropriate "kill switch"
> safeguards built in, would this not solve the world's pandemic problems? Is
> there any reason, practically, why this approach would not be feasible?
>
> Maybe we don't really know enough to manipulate A, B, C yet?
>
> Or maybe it's too scary for primetime...nightmare bio-warfare apocalypse?
>
> Has this sort of thing been done, or does it have a name?
>
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