One of the great things about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis. -Unknown

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[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's a far from being a safe vaccine, though. There are probably around 7 different vaccines one could take today. Is any of them optimized to lower this risk? If the spike is such a problem, modifying the vaccine such that it is not a spike, but only the side of the spike would probably save a few hundred lives.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That is certainly a possibility. I worked in biotech for a decade, so I've seen how most good ideas don't pan out, but some of them do.

Considering that this is all published research and we're all talking about it, it's clearly not being buried. And there's hundreds of millions of dollars to be made by any company that can bring the risk down to as close as possible to zero.

So, suffice to say, people more experienced than you or I are working on the problem, around the clock.

Applied mRNA therapy is brand new. My company wanted to produce an hTERT mRNA therapy, but we couldn't get the transfection rate high enough and had to shift gears. The fact that this is all finally happening is really exciting. The possiblities go way, way beyond vaccines.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Glad to see not everyone is a dumbass on this website. So, are you now a retired deca-millionaire?

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ha, I wish. No, the company eventually failed. And while the reasons it failed are complicated, I think I can simplify them down to one sentence: brilliant scientists often make wretched businessmen.

So now I'm just the stay-at-home dad to an autistic kid, but financially I'm fine. I married well :/