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Yes. But resistance to antibiotics does not mean "more virulent", it means that antibiotics don't work as well against them. Staph is quite virulent but not difficult to treat. Resistant staph is not more virulent but because it is more difficult to treat it can be a real problem.
Ever heard of superbugs that are a direct result of the overuse of antibiotics?
I've heard of it. It is a rare phenomenon, some diseases can cause it and a couple of vaccines have been known to induce it as well. It is actually a problem with the immune system in which antibodies can actually "assist" a virus in invading the hosts cells. It has nothing to do with viral mutation.
Apparently you have never heard of simple things like the concept of ADE (antibody dependent enhancement)
I’d suggest the vaccine is some sort of “key” which unlocks or directs the next mutation which is not random, but specified or preconceived in some way.
Yes, but they dont know what every part of the mRNA they are using does.
originally posted by: AcrobaticDreams
It makes you sound ignorant and hurts your cause.
Vaccines do not CAUSE mutations. It is easily provable that Delta was not caused by the vaccine. It is more correct to say that the vaccine causes one mutation to become dominant.
The mutations are caused naturally. The virus makes billions of copies and makes mistakes (mutations). This is what causes the variants. The vaccine, with its incomplete or partial immunity+leaky-ness will cause specific variants to be stopped by the vaccine induced immunity but will allow other variants to bypass that immunity and multiply in vaccinated hosts and they will spread that variant. This causes specific variants to be more dominant overall.
This is why it is NOT good to vaccinate with a leaky vaccine in the middle of a pandemic with just part of the world being vaccinated. Instead of the vaccinated halting the spread, they will halt SOME of the mutations but will let others spread which will increasingly be less like the original strain and will become more dominant. This is most likely why you are seeing Delta be the dominant strain in highly vaccinated countries. If we relied on natural immunity, you would most likely have many different strains that are out there and none are dominant because there is less SPECIFIC selective pressure with natural immunity.
But vaccines don't kill the virus so the virus cannot "adapt" to a vaccine. Vaccines prime our immune system to kill the virus. This is different from the way antibiotics work against bacteria.
He said when they vaccinate people the virus adapts to that vaccine and in a way becomes stronger.
Not stronger, just a bit different. Those mutations can occur just as well in someone who is not vaccinated as in someone who is.
Then he said after that, the virus mutates and becomes stronger, he then has to make the vaccine stronger.
Where’s your data? Citation please? Is this not a novel man made virus?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Skepticape
I’d suggest the vaccine is some sort of “key” which unlocks or directs the next mutation which is not random, but specified or preconceived in some way.
That is not how mutation works.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Bloodworth
I think the scientist may have been oversimplifying it a bit.
But vaccines don't kill the virus so the virus cannot "adapt" to a vaccine. Vaccines prime our immune system to kill the virus. This is different from the way antibiotics work against bacteria.
He said when they vaccinate people the virus adapts to that vaccine and in a way becomes stronger.
Not stronger, just a bit different. Those mutations can occur just as well in someone who is not vaccinated as in someone who is.
Then he said after that, the virus mutates and becomes stronger, he then has to make the vaccine stronger.
I thought mra was the future of vaccines and medicine over a whole spectrum of illness, your telling us it can only make spike protein? That seems far too specialized. Interesting it’s been worked on for 30 years but can only make spike proteins for a brand new novel virus.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: TrollMagnet
Yes, but they dont know what every part of the mRNA they are using does.
Yes they do. mRNA is a very simple molecule (not many "parts" to it) and it can only do one thing, cause ribosomes to produce the spike protein. It is not a mysterious process, the mRNA works like a stencil.
Novel, yes. This particular version of coronavirus has not been seen in humans before. Man made, probably not.
Is this not a novel man made virus?
I'm not sure what sort of "mutation data" you are looking for but will this help? It does get into the genetics a bit.
What other novel virus can you cite mutation data for along with covid?
For the current COVID vaccines, yes. That is all it is designed to produce because the spike protein is how SARS-COV-2 gains access to human cells.. The good news is that the same technology can be used to produce other proteins which may be able to induce the production of antibodies against other diseases.
your telling us it can only make the spike protein?
originally posted by: Phage
Novel, yes. This particular version of coronavirus has not been seen in humans before. Man made, probably not.
originally posted by: AcrobaticDreams
Vaccines do not CAUSE mutations. It is easily provable that Delta was not caused by the vaccine. It is more correct to say that the vaccine causes one mutation to become dominant.
The mutations are caused naturally. The virus makes billions of copies and makes mistakes (mutations). This is what causes the variants.
It showed high immunogenicity (many antibodies isolated from patients reacted to it) and it was also implicated in antibody-dependent enhancement. That effect has been mentioned here several times; it's a major concern. Recall that this happens when antibodies bind to the virus but don't neutralize it - in some of these cases, that antibody binding actually enhances the ability of the virus to get inside the human cell, which just makes everything worse. Not only do some SARS antibodies do that in the patients that developed them, but the same problem was seen in antibodies raised after potential SARS vaccine treatment.
Science Magazine: Mutations in the Coronavirus Spike Protein
Out of 10333 spike protein sequences analyzed, 8155 proteins comprised one or more mutations. A total of 9654 mutations were observed that correspond to 400 distinct mutation sites.
Human SARS CoV-2 spike protein mutations
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: tanstaafl
"Ever heard of superbugs that are a direct result of the overuse of antibiotics?"
Yes. But resistance to antibiotics does not mean "more virulent",
"Apparently you have never heard of simple things like the concept of ADE (antibody dependent enhancement)"
I've heard of it. It is a rare phenomenon, some diseases can cause it
and a couple of vaccines have been known to induce it as well.
It is actually a problem with the immune system in which antibodies can actually "assist" a virus in invading the hosts cells. It has nothing to do with viral mutation.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Skepticape
Novel, yes. This particular version of coronavirus has not been seen in humans before. Man made, probably not.
Is this not a novel man made virus?
I'm not sure what sort of "mutation data" you are looking for but will this help? It does get into the genetics a bit.
What other novel virus can you cite mutation data for along with covid?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
For the current COVID vaccines, yes. That is all it is designed to produce because the spike protein is how SARS-COV-2 gains access to human cells.. The good news is that the same technology can be used to produce other proteins which may be able to induce the production of antibodies against other diseases.
your telling us it can only make the spike protein?
originally posted by: Skepticape
So you were indeed over simplifying. The devil is in the details, not ignorant statements.. I see you have a long history of posting those.
I’ll have to check into your link- but I don’t see anything about how a novel virus presented with artificial spike proteins might respond on first glance. There are some predictable and controllable forms of mutations. Animal husbandry for one. Island species without predatory animals lose their fear and defenses, animals that live in the cold will have the ability to insulate themselves... it’s not quite as random as you are suggesting.
Understanding it’s a novel virus, that was probably not a natural evolution, it’s next stages of mutation could be directed- there’s no data on such a subject. For the covid lab in wuhan that was doing GoF research (but you think for different covid virus OK lols) how would they edit the virus? With mRNA? Are the spike proteins the vaccines stimulate our bodies to make different or the same as those produced by covid-19?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Skepticape
Novel, yes. This particular version of coronavirus has not been seen in humans before. Man made, probably not.
Is this not a novel man made virus?
I'm not sure what sort of "mutation data" you are looking for but will this help? It does get into the genetics a bit.
What other novel virus can you cite mutation data for along with covid?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
For the current COVID vaccines, yes. That is all it is designed to produce because the spike protein is how SARS-COV-2 gains access to human cells.. The good news is that the same technology can be used to produce other proteins which may be able to induce the production of antibodies against other diseases.
your telling us it can only make the spike protein?