Pre-Clinical Test of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shows It Protected Monkeys from Covid-19 (sfgate.com) 60
"Johnson & Johnson's experimental coronavirus vaccine protected macaque monkeys with a single shot in a pre-clinical study, potentially gaining on other vaccines that are further along in testing but require two doses over time," reports Bloomberg:
Five of six primates exposed to the pandemic-causing pathogen were immune after a single injection. The exception showed low levels of the virus, according to a study published in the medical journal Nature...
The health-care behemoth kick-started human trials on July 22 in Belgium and in the U.S. earlier this week. Although other vaccine-makers have moved more quickly into development, with AstraZeneca having already administered its experimental vaccine to almost 10,000 people in the U.K., gaining protection with a single dose could prove an advantage in the logistical challenge of rolling out massive vaccination programs worldwide.... The primate data show that the coronavirus vaccine candidate generated a strong antibody response, and provided protection with only a single dose, said Paul Stoffels, the drugmaker's chief scientific officer.
J&J aims to embark on the last phase of tests in September, compressing the traditional timeline as it races against others including AstraZeneca, Moderna Inc., Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc for a shot to end the pandemic.... The New Brunswick, New Jersey-based drugmaker will test both a one-dose coronavirus shot, and a shot coupled with a booster in its early-stage studies of more than 1,000 adults, which launched this month.
The health-care behemoth kick-started human trials on July 22 in Belgium and in the U.S. earlier this week. Although other vaccine-makers have moved more quickly into development, with AstraZeneca having already administered its experimental vaccine to almost 10,000 people in the U.K., gaining protection with a single dose could prove an advantage in the logistical challenge of rolling out massive vaccination programs worldwide.... The primate data show that the coronavirus vaccine candidate generated a strong antibody response, and provided protection with only a single dose, said Paul Stoffels, the drugmaker's chief scientific officer.
J&J aims to embark on the last phase of tests in September, compressing the traditional timeline as it races against others including AstraZeneca, Moderna Inc., Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc for a shot to end the pandemic.... The New Brunswick, New Jersey-based drugmaker will test both a one-dose coronavirus shot, and a shot coupled with a booster in its early-stage studies of more than 1,000 adults, which launched this month.
That's great and all (Score:4, Funny)
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If a vaccine does become available it will be interesting to see what the conservatives do. On the one hand free vaccine for everyone is socialism, but on the other hand it's the fastest way to get the economy moving again.
Rest assured I'm sure they will find some way to make it profitable for themselves and awful for everyone else.
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Make it mandatory to be vaccinated to work again but not make it free, so people can make the free decision whether they want to cough up the dough or not have a job tomorrow.
Yay for the free market!
The actual question is probably who the anti-vax loonies would vote for, then.
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Hey, as far as I'm concerned, you can go back to work without any vaccination.
Let nature take its course and mendel the problem out of existence.
Monkeys (Score:2)
If you like monkeys, here's a news report with drawings of monkeys:
https://multimedia.scmp.com/in... [scmp.com]
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Note to PETA, Peter Gabriel did not literally shock any monkeys.
Per common definitions, anyway.
Monkeys? (Score:2)
I didn't know monkeys were contracting COVID. Did they try social distancing? Enforcing mask wearing? Is it all monkeys or just American and Brazilian one?
Conspiracy theories (Score:2)
0) Grow your foreskin back.
1) Turn you into a Democrat.
2) Turn you into a Chinese communist.
3) Make you hate guns.
4) Take away your faith in god.
5) Make you a liberal socialist.
6) Make you crave avocado toast and herbal tea.
7) Shrink your penis.
8) Turn you into a slave of the grey aliens.
9) Make you all hairy so you can be legally hunted by liberal elites.
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Redundant.
Turn you into a communist, shrink your penis, and become a democrat are all the same thing.
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Redundant.
Turn you into a communist, shrink your penis, and become a democrat are all the same thing.
You clearly haven't seen Trump's hands, and who has been handing out trillion dollar stimulus packages?
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10) Installs Bill's new Windows for DNA into your system, allowing Soros to track you via a satellite telemetry feed.
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bad test subjects (Score:2)
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Wrong.
Bleach the orange ones. Test the simplest hypothesis first.
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Indeed, sir.
As one of the relatively hairless, rock-throwing monkeys, my only hope is that the subjugation of our superiors doesn't backfire until I'm cold in the ground.
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I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped lau
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I suppose the moral of the story is "Never hit a gift monkey in the nuts."
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Humans are apes, not monkeys. Apes and monkeys diverged nearly 30 million years ago.
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I diverged yesterday over lunch, when I realized categories "based" on genetics are entirely arbitrary.
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What very strange logic. The distinctions described by genetics are physically verifiable and provide testable theories of startling detail and precision. To ignore them is as foolish as claiming that gender is entirely a social construct. It's not borne out by the testable facts.
May I assume that you're referring to some genetic category such as gender which you find to be emotionally laden as well as easily verified with genetics, physiology, biology, and morphology? The cases where one contrasts with the
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Exact locations on the gene sequence are very difficult because protein doesn't last that long. We're forced to deduce from genetic drift in surviving examples, and to deduce from morphology. Much as the drift of language can be documented and analyzed, but the exact moment at which someone first used the phrase "Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick" is difficult to date, we don't have a map of every gene in every creature at every moment of time. Nevertheless, much as words have enough meaning to discuss reason
Monkey shmonkey (Score:1)
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How the heck can you not know that alligators have vaccines? How could you just blanket assume nobody's vaccinated alligators when they are farmed for commercial value? Fact is, bt, nothing bad happens to the human or the alligator when you vaccinate them. There's a West Nile vaccine you can purchase for crocodiles. Others have been tested just fine.
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Do I get labelled a dunce for jokes about milking bulls or finding a chameleon in a flannel factory too?
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Alligators are pretty much immune to all manner of shit, aren't they?
"You finally did it! You maniacs! You... (Score:2)
...blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
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...blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
Ah, the classics. Sadly that didn't make it into the modern remakes.
:-)
You might need a more modern reference, maybe the 21 Days Later's rage virus.
Yeahhh (Score:2)
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We don't know if the risk of infertility from COVID-19 is higher though. There is no evidence any of the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility as far as I am aware, but early COVID-19 studies do show that at least while infected there is lower male fertility and in some people causes testicular damage that we have no idea how long it lasts at this point. It may be dependent on how bad the case is; in deceased patients the damage to the testes is severe, but in most COVID-19 cases there is no damage. Another s
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Not really. There is enough frozen sperm and ova to restart the humanity.
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Way to squelch my hopes.
bad idea! (Score:2, Troll)
I hate every ape I see (Score:1)
How will we get people to take it? (Score:1)
Soon, Monkeys are going to be immune to everthing! (Score:2)
You want Planet of the Apes? Because this is how we get the Planet of the Apes.
If we keep immunizing them, Monkeys will eventually be immune to every virus on the planet! This will give them an enormous evolutionary advantage over homo sapiens. Not long after, they will take over the world, one clean cold laboratory at a time.
Covid-19 Vaccine (Score:1)
So many vaccine candidates are there in the race of market launch. I was going through COVAXIN [biotechtimes.org] article. Don't know how these vaccines gonna affect us.