Holyyyyyyy, it seems sterilizing vaccines might actually happen? If this ends up working out, it’ll be huge. This would mean vaccines which actually meaningfully stop transmission!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04003-4

Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials

New results hint at how to perfect β€˜mucosal’ vaccines, which are delivered up the nose or down the throat.

@yosh I wonder why carrots some times taste like hops.

<and this isn't a bunny joke>

@yosh 2-3 years πŸ˜”
I wish we still threw all the money at it, but it seems war is more important.
@yosh It might be a solution to a host of other pathogens as well... Sadly we won't share it with anyone who can't pay.
@yosh @mimsical
Novo Nordisk Foundation just donated $260 million for research in inhaled vaccines. Not covid though. The diseases they are targeting are TB, the flu, and streptococcus. But there's probably a lot of overlap. It's not a lot of money compared to the NIH budget but still a lot of money.
@drgroftehauge And I don't want *those* diseases either.
@yosh I really hope so, but there have been quite a few that did great in animal trials and didn't work in human trials. Still hoping this is the way though! 🀞
@yosh I actually cried reading this. If they can make this happen my whole entire life would change 😭
@yosh Great name - can't imagine how antivaxxers will misconstrue that one.
@freequaybuoy @yosh Yeah, that was my thought too. I can smell the conspiracy theories a mile away.
@mkb @yosh I believe the whole microchip thing came from hearing that mRNA vaccines *program* the immune system. They're gonna have a field day with this. Only calling it the Q Sterilisation Vaccine could've baited them more! On the other hand, should we have to internalise, agonise over and preempt everything they might react to? On the contrary, maybe we should lean into it - "The Bigly Good MAGA Q Sterilisation Program"
@yosh damn I thought it was for sterilizing people not viruses
@yosh for a brief moment, I thought that meant something entirely different.

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This was always my threshold for not wearing a mask anymore. Inhaled vaccines.

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Anyone know what protein they're targeting? There's an N-protein vaccine out there that did great in trials. US Gov doesn't give a shit. They want us sick.
@yosh exciting news, but those poor monkeys 😭
@yosh Vinnie Barbarino is overjoyed. So is John Travolta.
@yosh I'm trying to find out if there's any data on how long the effect lasts.