Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed a universal coronavirus vaccine that strips these sugars and exposes a stable, rarely mutating part of the spike protein. This approach triggered strong immune responses in
  • AnyOldName3English
    5•13 days ago

    There are people who have genuine medical reasons to not take vaccines (e.g. an allergy to a common ingredient) or who are so immunocompromised that a vaccine won’t keep them alive, and they rely on other people getting vaccinated to avoid dying. It’s not just antivaxers who antivaxers kill.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•13 days ago

      it’s not just antivaxers who antivaxers kill.

      Reminded of the family whose kid died of measles saying “Our other kids survived, so it was fine”.

      That young child wasn’t the one who had been deluded with misinformation.