It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The bulk of Chinese shots are from Sinovac and Sinopharm, which both rely on a traditional technology called an inactivated virus vaccine, based on cultivating batches of the virus and then killing it. Some countries view it as safer than the newer, less-proven technology used by some Western competitors that targets the coronavirus’ spike protein, despite publicly available safety data for the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines and none for China’s.
“The choice was made for this vaccine because it is developed on a traditional and safe inactivated platform,” said Teymur Musayev, an official with the Ministry of Health in Azerbaijan, which has ordered 4 million Sinovac doses.
As a result of the different approaches, there is also the question of whether your vaccine passport will actually be accepted wherever you plan to visit. In some cases, countries will only recognize proof of vaccination if you'd received one of the approved vaccines for that country.
China, for example, has said that visitors should receive one of the vaccines manufactured in that country. That means that if you received the Moderna, Pfizer, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines--the three used in the US as of now--you're out of luck.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a common cold virus that has been engineered to make it harmless.
It then safely carries part of the coronavirus's genetic code into the body. This is enough for the body to recognise the threat and then learn to fight coronavirus.
This trains the body's immune system to fight coronavirus when it encounters the virus for real.
www.bbc.co.uk...
How China stands to profit from the coronavirus pandemic
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: gortex
Not quite... it is not dead SarsCov2, it is just a related virus that has DNA inserted to "create" spike proteins once inside us from what I have read. It appears a hell of a lot safer than the mRNA but still concentrates on the spike protein only.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is based on the virus’s genetic instructions for building the spike protein. But unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which store the instructions in single-stranded RNA, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses double-stranded DNA.
Adenovirus-based vaccines for Covid-19 are more rugged than mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. DNA is not as fragile as RNA, and the adenovirus’s tough protein coat helps protect the genetic material inside. As a result, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can be refrigerated for up to three months at 36–46°F (2–8°C).
The adenovirus pushes its DNA into the nucleus. The adenovirus is engineered so it can’t make copies of itself, but the gene for the coronavirus spike protein can be read by the cell and copied into a molecule called messenger RNA, or mRNA.
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: infolurker
I've wondered why the West is using "new technology", the mRNA approach (viral vector is apparently not as untested, but still "new" compared to inactivated virus method, I believe.
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: 1947boomer
How the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works
www.nytimes.com...
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is based on the virus’s genetic instructions for building the spike protein. But unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which store the instructions in single-stranded RNA, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses double-stranded DNA.
Adenovirus-based vaccines for Covid-19 are more rugged than mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. DNA is not as fragile as RNA, and the adenovirus’s tough protein coat helps protect the genetic material inside. As a result, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can be refrigerated for up to three months at 36–46°F (2–8°C).
The adenovirus pushes its DNA into the nucleus. The adenovirus is engineered so it can’t make copies of itself, but the gene for the coronavirus spike protein can be read by the cell and copied into a molecule called messenger RNA, or mRNA.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: chr0naut
Someone is taking up the current MSM programming quite well.
originally posted by: buddha
This made me think about how many are dieing in china.
chinas make army power is the numbers.
two more years of this and us or ussr could walk over them.
take Tibet.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: chr0naut
Someone is taking up the current MSM programming quite well.