How would these inhalers work though (I read about this last week)?There was an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday talking about the various developments on COVID vaccines and other treatments.
Both the pfizer and Moderna vaccines are both pretty similar and work in similar ways: they are injected into the muscle and from there they work their way into the bloodstream and stimulate the production of antibodies. But both have question marks though, for example how long such antibody resistance would last. Also the extent to which a heathy, but infected vaccinated person can still infect someone else.
Something which had not really occurred to me is that other types of treatment are also being researched, which potentially could be a whole lot better. Coronavirus gets in to your system through your mucous membrane, and therefore if we could kill it there, then for the virus it's game over. It never gets to make it further into your body.
There's research going on into such treatments which could take the form of a simple nasal spray or inhaler. And the advantages of these - as well as not having to arrange millions of injections - would be that people didn't carry the infection around and would not infect other people, so the disease would die out much more quickly.
Don't think you're going to get a global concerted effort to spray our throats periodically. Killing what you can't see is nigh on impossible. It's never realistically been a strategy for disease control.There was an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday talking about the various developments on COVID vaccines and other treatments.
Both the pfizer and Moderna vaccines are both pretty similar and work in similar ways: they are injected into the muscle and from there they work their way into the bloodstream and stimulate the production of antibodies. But both have question marks though, for example how long such antibody resistance would last. Also the extent to which a heathy, but infected vaccinated person can still infect someone else.
Something which had not really occurred to me is that other types of treatment are also being researched, which potentially could be a whole lot better. Coronavirus gets in to your system through your mucous membrane, and therefore if we could kill it there, then for the virus it's game over. It never gets to make it further into your body.
There's research going on into such treatments which could take the form of a simple nasal spray or inhaler. And the advantages of these - as well as not having to arrange millions of injections - would be that people didn't carry the infection around and would not infect other people, so the disease would die out much more quickly.
Don't think you're going to get a global concerted effort to spray our throats periodically. Killing what you can't see is nigh on impossible. It's never realistically been a strategy for disease control.
Sorry for a late comment on those numbers mate,No it isn't.
Schools close and people take holiday so the main conduits for viral spread vanish.
Schools are currently responsible for 29% of Covid cases and work another 15%. These are the transmission routes for a large chunk of those catching it at home (20% overall) as well. So 50%+ of transmission will vanish in week 52.
Oh and anyone who is realy ill gets admitted to hospital and those figures drop a bit in week 52 as well
New year festivities mormally bring it all back with a bang but there you go.
Interesting. I hadn't heard of those options - I assume they are down the line as they are theoretical, but that solution has merit of it can be made to work.
The three made so far all work by capping the spike protein, with the idea of stopping the virus getting into the cell.
How would these inhalers work though (I read about this last week)?
One off spray or something you would need to carry around with you every day (which surely in the real world isn't practical?)
Don't think you're going to get a global concerted effort to spray our throats periodically. Killing what you can't see is nigh on impossible. It's never realistically been a strategy for disease control.
Thought I read this morning it comes from chimpanzees?I would expect they will but we all know that some people will never be persuaded and some of those will base their views on something completely irrational.
Anyone know if the vaccine contains animal products? I guess some will not have it if it has.
It's all pretty complicated but apparently the type of antibody developed by the 3 new vaccines is a blood antibody called IgG. But the main antibody in your respiratory tract is called IgA. So they are looking at ways of boosting your IgA. That doesn't mean you'd need to carry an inhaler all the time, merely that it would be administered nasally or by inhaler, not injected.
What does everyone reckon with this 1 and a half dose thing then? Will they give the 2 dose 62% regime until more data on the smaller dose is done or straightaway go with the 90% approx lower dose? Heard the smaller dose was a 3000 person subset.