Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Dr. Gupta explains his "treatment" if the US were his patient" video.

The information on the Moderna site is somewhat sketchy. I'm curious if this has been tested in nonhuman primates to see if immunization, to the portion of the spike protein the mRNA codes for, does not cause the immunopathology of their previous MERS-CoV vaccine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlP91xjvsQ
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@faub3282 If you cannot see the difference between a positive stranded RNA virus, and a DNA retrovirus, you don't know much.
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@B_Bodziak No true, they did eventually get a working vaccine for SARS, that did not cause immunopathology. It just was after the epidemic was over, so wasn't used.
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@faub3282 Sure, because they started testing all donated blood for HIV in March 1985.
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@faub3282 Long before germ theory was proposed. it was know that isolation and quarantine would stop the spread of a disease. Your contention, that it does not work, is belied by thousands of years of human knowledge. It used to be our only weapon in the fight against infectious disease. Since Koch, we've understood microbes cause infectious disease, we have added hygiene to that arsenal. And we will develop a vaccine, maybe not this year, but by next year. Vaccine development used to be hit and miss attempts to attenuate a pathogen. But, now we can recreate sections of surface antigens of a virus, or the nucleic acids that code for them, in the lab. That speeds up vaccine development. It is only the testing that must take time, to ensure that the vaccine does not have unintended deleterious consequences.
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