Dumb question Can we mass synthesize isolated covid antigens and just inject them I assume there is a good reason we are not doing this
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further clarification by "antigen" im asking about synthesizing virus-specific proteins or similar rather than injecting the entire viruspic.twitter.com/EecxVvt9Q8
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further clarification re ADE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement …
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this reminds me of the time I independently invented cryptographic hashes also extremely badly thanks everyone
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Yeah it could be real bad if we do it wrong!
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I am...somewhat skeptical of the ADE hypothesis for both Classic SARS and New SARS, though it's certainly possible, and a good reason for caution
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more generally eliciting a protective immune response is very fucking tricky and virus dependent one of the fun developments of the last 20 years is how we figured out how to make subunit vaccines (just one or two proteins) which are safer than live or killed virus
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