Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia
"I think what we have is a universal vaccine against diverse respiratory threats," Pulendran said.
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Yes, please. We've been absolutely rocked by the recent plague circulating around schools
How can a nasal spray protect against bullets?
Maybe the spray has PCP in it so you just don't care about being shot.
You are assuming they are American.
Americans aren't too picky about who they shoot
Huh, I got arrested for breaking into an abandoned building...
I get the joke but for the sake of strict accuracy I'm so white I'm borderline translucent. I just meant that every mall around me is dead and abandoned.
Intentionally spread a new variant of a virus to create demand for a new vaccine because nobody cares about COVID anymore? I’d believe it.
Evolution will happen whether we want it or not and new strains will appear from time to time, just like we've seen with every virus ever known.
But if you still think that's what happened, we'd love to see your evidence of this new strain being man-made.
Exactly. Our immune system is excellent but its immune cell exploration space is on the order of 10^11 potential receptors.
So since RNA viruses in particular can mutate so rapidly, we just use our brains to reduce that by 10+ orders of magnitude and target the antigens we want directly. The end result is the same, biotech is just smarter.
"Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." ~biotech
Headline "protects against".
Lede paragraph: "could one day protect against".
Article: "in mice"
Conspiracy theory that it turns you gay/gives you cancer/makes you a pod person coming in 3, 2, 1....
I'm withholding any opinion until I hear from the head of the FDA who has surely been using the US government's teams of hundreds of scientists to get the best Gold standard science on this technology
What is RFK Jr stance on it? 🤣
“It’s good if it goes up the nose.”
If they can somehow create a powdered version it may finally get him on board
It only just struck me. The federal government is currently headed by several “where is Ja Rule” level incompetents. Enough of the funny, I really, really want to go back to the boring government.
But what does Ja think? Where's Ja...?!
Funny joke from a petty bully. Chappelle loves to punch down too much for me to respect him more than anyone in the Trump admin.
Got any examples? Honestly curious.
If you think Chappelle is worse or equivalent to the trump admin, that's gonna be a tough sell...
Been living under a rock?
https://www.newsweek.com/davie-chappelle-netflix-special-transgender-disabled-1856893
There are tons of articles out there about his jokes punching down at various groups, because it's an ongoing problem and he just doubles down if anyone complains.
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying." - Sir Terry Prachett
And I never said he was as bad as anyone in the Trump admin, I just said I couldn't respect him any more than them. He sits in a place of immense privilege and punches down at people who are struggling. He's in the same company as them.
You have to ask?
The only thing the FDA needs to hear is that this will make a lot of money for the shareholders.
It drove me nuts in the early days of the COVID vaccine and some study came out showing that a lot of the people against the vaccine were really just afraid of needles, but had a good chance to get their courage up if the news media would just stop plastering pictures of needles in every story about the vaccine. So, what did the news media do? They just kept right on throwing pictures of needles on every story.
This is an interesting notion I hadn't considered at all, you may be on to something there.
I am afraid of needles too but that didn't stop me from getting the vaccine because I'm more afraid of fucking dying.
Wait, really? I need something to fortify my homosexuality. Wanna make sure I’m not catching feelings for men.
Don’t forget, 6G.
10G BABY
Aw yiss, Gay x2 here we goooo!
But what about the microchips?
And that would be bad why?
well, my girlfriend would be a bit upset
...and I'd DEFINITELY need new clothes
I mean, if you don't want to be, that'd be kind of a bummer. I wouldn't know though...
Dunno, ask Alex Jones, he's the one peddling it as bad even though there's reason to think he's a bisexual swinger.
Pretty close https://lemmy.world/comment/22305562
Tell Kennedy it has cocaine and it'll get approved
A composition of cocaine, roadkill, raw milk and sewage water and he's sold.
Mention added immunity from toilet seats for bonus points.
Compatible with any disgusting toilet seat that you may want to ingest anything off of, it's really great. Top big time #1 Mr. President! sir! I am crying! I want to kiss you! Many people are saying!
Alright
grabs shovel
Stanford has a constant habit of lying in press releases. Don’t bother reading what they publish until someone else reproduces their work.
Pls explain the joke to me like I’m an uncultured old man
Big pharma whips out their calculator, their eyes grow larger and larger as they excitedly do the math.
Doesn't it make more sense to view this as something you'd only apply to yourself in the winter months and whenever there's a sporadic uptick in respiratory diseases in your area, though?
I can see this working against bacteria and viruses but how does it block allergens? Isn't an overly strong immune reaction how they start to begin with?
Yes, allergies are a form of auto immune disorder.
This! Went from so hopeful to devastated so fast — covid gave me autoimmune nightmare syndromes, and immunosuppressants are one of very few things to have actually helped me gain a tiny bit of my life back. Boosting immune system? Nooo thank you.
If it stops transmission, then that’s still good for those of us who can’t get it, but plenty of vaccines don’t unfortunately. They’re still very worth getting and keeping up to date with boosters if you can
This is PR bullshit from Stanford, in mice.
Yes please.
Needles put a lot off people off and it‘s especially confronting to parents with babies and toddlers. Very hopeful.
Cool, where do I sign up?
At your local Kid Rock concert
Can they add this to the chemtrail vape juice so I dont have to go get it myself? /$
Ad some Ozempic and I'm sold
ONE DAY, they announced something similar a few years ago, but no new info came out.
We now go live to RFK Jr. for his reaction:
Well that about does it for the USA. At least we gave the rest of the world a good, hearty laugh as we all perished from preventable illnesses.
Be 999,99! Very expensive.
I've probably heard this one before
did they link the paper somewhere?
This format is much easier to squeeze nanomachines into. /s
crazy shit man.
i just heard about a nasal spray technology that was recently developed for a BCI (body computer interface) using conductive nano particles that can pass the blood brain barrier.
not sure how it works, but just that it apparantly exists.
like nasal spray neuralink.
not saying this is related or anything, besides having the same delivery system.
crazy times we live in.