I was also thinking about vaccine distribution, how difficult it is. The infectious vaccine is like lighting back-fires in forest fires.
One can certainly see why this would be instantly shot down by any pharma CEO: all you need, theoretically, is enough for one infection, so negative profit margin. (Unless you charge $billions for that one infection....) JPK On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:09 PM Emilia Arturo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology >> Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology >> Primary Investigator of the Stark Neuroscience Research Institute >> Indiana University School of Medicine >> 635 Barnhill Drive, MS0013C >> Indianapolis, IN, 46202 >> (317)274-4371 >> https://qqhoang.pages.iu.edu >> >> 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? >> >> Jacob >> -- >> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Jacob Pearson Keller >> >> Assistant Professor >> >> Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Therapeutics >> >> Uniformed Services University >> >> 4301 Jones Bridge Road >> >> Bethesda MD 20814 >> >> [email protected]; [email protected] >> >> Cell: (301)592-7004 >> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> >> >> -- >> ======================================================================= >> All Things Serve the Beam >> ======================================================================= >> David J. Schuller >> modern man in a post-modern world >> MacCHESS, Cornell University >> [email protected] >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jacob Pearson Keller Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Therapeutics Uniformed Services University 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD 20814 [email protected]; [email protected] Cell: (301)592-7004 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
