H5N1 Bird Flu hasn't gone away; in fact, the opposite. It's constantly spreading and becoming endemic in more and more animal populations. In North America, notably among cows. All this increases the chances that a day comes when a mutation gives us a variant with 2 deadly characteristics. 1. Easily transmissible among humans & 2. A high mortality rate in humans.
mRNA technology is a bright spot in preventing future horror movie scenarios. It gives us the means to quickly develop a vaccine if a highly infectious and deadly variant arises. Amazingly, the US has just decided to dump that lifeline, and is jettisoning all funding for mRNA technology.
mRNA technology will continue to be developed in the rest of the world. Like more and more science and technology areas, China will probably become the leader. If the horror movie day comes, and a highly infectious and deadly human variant of H5N1 arises, Americans better hope their leaders are good at begging and pleading for help from the rest of the world in desperate circumstances, because they're going to need it to get the technology they've just thrown away.
By cancelling $500 million in mRNA research, the US has lost its only effective weapon against H5N1 Bird Flu.
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You have to wonder, is it stupidity or are they so funded by foreign countries that they are willing to sacrifice their people for another donation.
mRNA vaccines and adjacent tech are a medical marvel and America had the initiative in the field. We’re just surrendering a huge economic and health sector to countries with more common sense.
I’m so tired of “winning”.
For the people who still don’t get it Sam Altman from chatgpt built his underground bunker because of the Dutch Lab that made this flu….. The same one that made America egg prices skyrocket
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/04/11/lab-leak-accident-h-5-n-1-virus-avian-flu-experiment/11354399002/
When billionaires are building their bunkers because of H5N1 you might want to study
Also friendly reminder Philippines increased their deaths by 43 percent in 2021 had more deaths like the rest of the world in 2019 vs 2020
Death data easiest way to also see the truth especially Philippines easiest way to see it
Just ask chat Philippines death data it will tell you
We’ll have to buy vaccine from another country, and Trump will rail about the cost.
This sucks, I know a lot of US companies are pioneers in mRNA research, it will hurt the country.
As you know MAGAs don’t get cancer so they don’t need the mRNA vaccine. Anything that requires thinking about actions and consequences is beyond their capabilities.
Bio tech companies make enough money and can fund their own shot.
Also mRNA is the most promising cancer treatment there is, it has the potential to supplant most cancer treatments and be far more effective/safer.
Lmao I’m so happy for America.
Speed running back to the stone ages.
Let them be.
And if the rest of the world has a cure, let them not have it.
They threw out perfect research, safety for people, het they threw it away. Why should the rest of the world help them out then?
The larger question here is also that we spend all of this public money developing drugs and vaccines, then hand it to corporations that overcharge us for it.
Like we sponsored This research they used, and we don’t even get a deal on it? This whole system is broken even before these clowns got in here.
Hopefully travel from America gets banned before it becomes a global issue.
That’s ok, there is a lot of research and manufacturing capability in Europe. Then they’ll be happy to take the researchers as well.
The pharma companies take our taxpayer bucks for research and then appropriate the results with patents.
Not saying research has to be stopped, but financing pure greed is really bad for the future.
There are few people I hate more than RFK Jr, because he represents everything I hate about modern politics and medical discussion in one brain-worm afflicted package. A man no one would bother with if not for his famous last name, affecting policy he has no expertise in, because it makes certain people feel good about something since they can’t accept, sadly, that bad things happen outside of their control, so they blame the tools that make our lives better in vaccines.
Yay, if this becomes transferable from human to bird, then a lot of us could lose our pets. Which, especially in the bird community, they are treated pretty equal to humans considering the long life span of exotics. I could lose my children because of the incompetence of others
This isn’t about mRNA. It’s about all vaccines. There were three COVID vaccines in 2021, and one of them used “old” non-mRNA technology. These people still didn’t want to get vaccinated.
They’re lying and they know it. They don’t care because they won with their lies in the open. Why tell the truth when you don’t have to.
I hope EU takes the lead, continues the project, and when the pandemic inevitably hits the US, they can sell it by the price they are willing to charge to TRAITORS.
So…millions of people will unnecessarily suffer, die and be sacrificed to the golden calf that is 🤮trump. Are we looking at a future where a scrape becomes a death sentence UNLESS they are deemed worthy by an acolyte of the ignorant?
As mentioned before, China is already ahead in research. Many foreign companies are heavily investing as well as a lot of local biotech are being supported by the government. For example: https://pharmaphorum.com/news/biontech-buys-biotheus-and-its-keytruda-rival-950m
I know reddit deeply hates anything China but it’s good to see a government believe in science.
Get everyone sick. Government activates emergency powers and suspends the constitution. America ends.