FYI- new Vax
The new Covid vaccine (2024-2025 version) was just approved and will start being available in pharmacies as early as next week. (e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/08/22/new-coronavirus-vaccine-covid/)
I looked at the vax signup pages of several local pharmacies . In my location, CVS is offering them starting Wednesday, and Walgreens on Sept 6. I signed up! I've been anxiously awaiting this since it's been nearly a year since my last shot and I know several people who've had the virus recently.
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
“One goal of this research, and vaccinology in general, is to work toward a universal vaccine that can generate antibodies and create an immune response with broad protection to a rapidly mutating virus,” said Will Voss, a recent Ph.D. graduate in cell and molecular biology in UT’s College of Natural Sciences, who co-led the study.
Wow, this will be wonderful when the antibody vaccine is available. No more individual COVID Vaccine shots, as this will be a one size fits all. Thanks for sending this along!
Sometimes I wonder whether any scientific progress will be made under a Republican Congress. Will scientists have to hide their research in order to preserve their findings. Will federal research money be allocated toward developing this or other antibody vaccines, or will this be woven into a new conspiracy theory that the government is trying to control you. Sad.
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
“One goal of this research, and vaccinology in general, is to work toward a universal vaccine that can generate antibodies and create an immune response with broad protection to a rapidly mutating virus,” said Will Voss, a recent Ph.D. graduate in cell and molecular biology in UT’s College of Natural Sciences, who co-led the study.
Will scientists have to hide their research in order to preserve their findings.
Will federal research money be allocated toward developing this or other antibody vaccines, or will this be woven into a new conspiracy theory that the government is trying to control you. Sad.
It kind of bothers me that these guys can patent a naturally occurring product-- the antibody. But money will be the driving force that will get this thing to the market so people will benefit from it.
(Makes me wonder if I'm one of the people who naturally carries this antibody. I don't know of anyone who mingles with the public on a regular basis who has never gotten sick with COVID, besides myself. Though I'm sure I'm not the only one. I test every time I get the sniffles or get exposed to someone with COVID. )
@ana Interesting that you've never had COVID despite your frequent exposure to the public. Maybe you are one of the fortunate ones whose body has some type of protection against a severe case? I've never had a diagnosed case of COVID, but then I don't have a lot of public contact.
Makes me wonder if I'm one of the people who naturally carries this antibody. I don't know of anyone who mingles with the public on a regular basis who has never gotten sick with COVID, besides myself. Though I'm sure I'm not the only one. I test every time I get the sniffles or get exposed to someone with COVID.
I have only had it once - it was extremely mild (though at the time I didn't feel that way because I had every single symptom of COVID just at different times and each for only about 8 hours each) but I'm in schools with kids and teachers nearly every day during a school year. I'm wondering if I'm with you because my wife and kids have had it multiple times and between them and the germ factory that is the American Public School System, I should be recovering from my 10th case of it by now and - nada. Granted, I am far more careful than I used to be when I spend time in public - I carry hand sanitizer everywhere, I prioritize 8 hours of sleep every night and healthy exercise, and the diet I was on last year for the liver donation saga in particular is a great immune builder/inflammation extinguisher, but even with all these protocols I'm certain I've been exposed hundreds of times at this point.
(I'll take it! This is not me tempting the fates :P)
I’m an RN who’s been in direct contact with perhaps hundreds of COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began . . . and by some miracle have never had it myself. While a vast majority of my colleagues have had it at one time or another, the personal caveat here is that as well as always using PPE and contact precautions at work, I’ve gotten the vaccinations and boosters all along, and in fact just got my 2024 shot yesterday. Either the vaccinations are working or my body is coursing with right wing conspiracy theories, you decide. 😉
@toma Same work situation for me, Tom. I thought my good fortune might be related to being on a high dose of an ACE inhibitor, because Covid gets in through ACE receptors, but that doesn't explain why my son and daughter were spared. Daughter JUST got it for first time a month ago. She is an NP.
God bless you in your work. I just retired from nursing.
@toma Got my 2024 booster yesterday. I've been in the Pfizer world for my initial shots and boosters but had to get Moderna because it's all they had. It's kicking my butt!
An hour later my phone rings and Greatest Wife Ever has COVID. We've always quarantined away from everyone else when we get sick (I'm a germaphobe) so I keep testing negative thankfully, but holy cow this booster! Stop the world I want off!
@dannyboy, I'm sorry about your Greatest Wife Ever getting Covid. I'm also sorry this Moderna vaccine is kicking your butt. FYI, I received the new vaccine three weeks ago. It was Pfizer, which is what I've always been getting. And it kicked my butt too! Fortunately my husband had a mild reaction, just a sore arm.
I also have not had it, nor has my husband, who plays squash in a small closed room twice a week every week without fail, with a bunch of guys. We are vaccinated to the max. I've attended large events in auditoriums in person without a mask, and gone to the movies without mask, and traveled with a large bunch of people, including restaurants, museums. We also didn't catch it from a relative who had covid while living with us for many months. But like the rest of you, I don't want to jinx myself. I'm not getting the booster because I had a bad reaction to the last booster and my doctor says don't.