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Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask

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Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask
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Getting Vaccinated For COVID. We’re Not Safe Until Everyone Is:
So the world has been gripped by the Coronavirus pandemic for almost a year now.

And through that time, we’ve mostly learned to follow the right health-safety practices that protect other people according to the CDC.

By some kind of miracle, we got 2 COVID vaccines in just over 8 months, and 2 more on-deck shortly thereafter.

Even better, people are starting to get vaccinated in increasing numbers and case-counts are falling for the moment.

But even with people getting their shots, another spectre may be popping-up…

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The COVID-19 Vaccine: What Does It Do To Your Body? ASAPScience Answers!

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The COVID-19 Vaccine: What Does It Do To Your Body? ASAPScience Answers!


Now That We Have It, What Does The COVID Vaccine Do?
With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the first questions was, “What does this thing do to you?”

SCIENCE! performed a miracle with 3 vaccines released in less than 1 year,

So the next question is, “What the hell is the vaccine going to do to me?”

This is a good question, as all entries use a technique different from that of normal vaccines, and might seem a little scary at first.

So ASAPScience dug into exactly what the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do and how they work…

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?
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Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine. A New Hope, With Some Caveats:
So we got our miracle! A Coronavirus vaccine!

What this constitutes in medicine really is kind of amazing.

Even the incredible work done on Ebola was based on elements that had been in the pipeline for years, so this work is like bottled-lightning!

There would have been absolutely nobody in March of this year who guessed a working vaccine by year’s end would be possible or even likely.

But here we are, and although more good news is coming, we are in the phase Tom Petty once said was the hardest part. Waiting…

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Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, News, Noise

Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective
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[-at least in early trials]
So, forget the miracle cure-stories of the Georgia doctor and the Texas nurse; for now.

A group of medical aid organizations from the United Kingdom, Norway & France made it all possible,

-Crunching a normally years-long process down to 12 months or less to get Merck’s vaccine out there and save at least 4,000+ people…

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Gardasil-9 Bumps Up Already-Impressive Protection Against HPV-Related Cancers

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Gardasil-9 Bumps Up Already-Impressive Protection Against HPV-Related Cancers
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Somehow the wizards at Merck or their original researchers like CSL Ltd. have made the already-impressive Gardasil even more effective.

The new Gardasil-9 protects against even more strains of HPV than before.

The old vaccine protected against 4 varieties & had a 97% prevention rate. And those 4 strains covered 70% of all potentially-lethal HPV.

 
Mystifyingly, even though it covers more than twice as many strains,…

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Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, News

Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work,

Drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.

In the works, is a small, sometimes gel-dissolvable patch bristling with teeny-tiny needles.

The purpose: get drugs into the body that would ordinarily be administered by means originally designed as much for physical pain and psychological torture as they were for chemical-delivery…

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