Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Tapper asks Gates when he thinks we'll be back to 'normal.' Hear his response" video.

@algorithmicalychallenged.291 Why do you ask for a bill, when presidents don't pass bill? His denial of the results of the election is evidence of his antidemocratic mores. His assertion that article one gives him the power to do whatever he wants was another. His flouting of Constitutional limits is very authoritarian. His use of temporary people to fill roles that usually require confirmation showed his lack of respect for Congress, as did his refusal to answer any House subpoena.
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@JasonBoyce The entire virus was sequenced by January 9, 2020. You're misinformed.
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@opencommentsbbcnewsnight1704 Can you think of any woe that is befalling our planet, such a global warming, that is not exacerbated by a rapidly growing human population? Think of all the people leaving Africa for Europe illegally, and all the problems that is causing. Poor women, burdened with a dozen children, can never find their way out of poverty. Taking away a person's ability to ever have any children ,involuntarily, would be wrong. But, allowing them to limit their family to a manageable size is a good thing. Smaller families can afford to both feed and educate the children.
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Then use Linux.
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@aieoum He's been paying for research on a universal malaria vaccine. What is false about that?
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@emsleywyatt3400 The vaccines contain a portion of one of the spike (external) proteins. With SARS and MERS it was found using an entire spike protein can cause vaccine mediated immunopathy, which is why these vaccines only code for a segment of the protein.
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@SmokeConsciousHipHop The only side effect was a overactive immune response. No doubt, this is because some people had asymptomatic covid, and were already immune. Having been laid out when receiving a cholera vaccine, after I'd had cholera, I'll vouch it is no fun. But, those effects are counted with an epi-pen. And, the risk of not being immune is much greater.
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@rb8289 A similar vaccine against SARS conferred immunity for over two years.
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@McLKeith No, it is not mitochondrial RNA, it is messenger RNA. (You are probably thinking of mitochondrial DNA. That's different.) During protein synthesis, in a cell, a portion of the DNA unzips, and an mRNA template is made from it. The that mRNA then goes to the endoplasmic reticulum, where tRNA (transfer RNA) brings the appropriate amino acids for each codon, to form an amino acid chain. Then there is a bunch of secondary, tertiary and quaternary folding, to form the protein.
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@DB-sm6eu Since a virion (virus outside of a host cell) is not considered alive, it could last quite a while in the freezer; there are no life systems to disrupt. The reason that the mRNA vaccines must be kept very cold, is to keep them from being degraded by the myriad of ribonucleases in our environment. Because the Moderna vaccine is somewhat protected by a liposome coating, it does not require temperatures as low as the Pfizer vaccine does.
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@Emagick77 Newer Covid tests do use saliva. Cancer is not one disease, there are countless forms of cancers, with countless causes. A cancer caused by a virus, HPV which causes cervical cancer, has a preventative vaccine. Diagnostic tests and treatments for different cancers are constantly being developed. What does that have to do with a vaccine against a specific virus?
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cervellone BioNTech was working on producing "cancer specific antigens" to encourage the immune system to destroy the cancer cells, basically immunizing people against their own cancers, immunotherapy.
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@Emagick77 Your children did not have childhood illnesses because better parents made sure that their children immunized, which gave us herd immunity. Enough bad parents, like you, gave rise to several measles outbreaks.
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cervellone Influenza viruses are different from coronaviruses. The influenza genes are broken into 7 (type C) or 8 (types A and B) subunits. Each subunit codes for a different antigen. During co-infection, two different influenza strains can swap subunits, creating a new strain with a novel set of antigens. That is why so many new flu strains arise each year, and we need to be vaccinated against these new strains. Coronavirus is a single, single stranded, positive-sense RNA virus. It cannot swap around subunits. Yes, there arose a spike protein mutation, on those mink farms, which could have caused problems. That is why all those mink were destroyed, so it would not get into the human population. There has been only one other mutation in the spike proteins in humans, and that has not affected the efficacy of any of the vaccines. If the spike protein were to mutate too much, the virus would no longer be able to attach to the ACE-2 receptor, and enter a host cell.
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@andrewstevens2658 The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines contain no virus only mRNA for a section of one of the spike proteins. The Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine uses a modified chimp adenovirus as a vector, not HIV. There was a vaccine developed in Australia, that used a portion of HIV for a vector, nobody is going to receive that vaccine, so don't worry about it. I've also survived cancer, and the chemo used to treat it, which is why I want the vaccine. Chemo causes organ damage that can make one more susceptible to death from Covid.
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