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Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts) Fri Dec 31, 2021, 02:03 PM Dec 2021

I wish more people could recognize how lucky we got with the mRNA vaccines.

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For anyone who thinks prayer can fight COVID, these vaccines are the answer to those prayers. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that they may be the greatest scientific advance of this century, and how luck we got that they were already developed and ready to go for this pandemic.

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I wish more people could recognize how lucky we got with the mRNA vaccines. (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Dec 2021 OP

Thanks. Obama! CanyaDigIt Dec 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2021 #3

Thanks, Obama. brer cat Dec 2021 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2021 #2

A study just out of SA Raftergirl Dec 2021 #5

figures TFG would try to take all the credit RussBLib Dec 2021 #6

Most people have just about zero understanding of how science PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #7

Not just luck KT2000 Jan 2022 #8

CanyaDigIt

(1,057 posts)

1. Thanks. Obama!

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Fri Dec 31, 2021, 02:19 PM

Dec 2021

https://foster.house.gov/media/press-releases/foster-highlights-president-obama-s-contribution-to-rapid-vaccine-development

Foster said, “Heeding the advice of his scientific panel, in 2013 the Obama Administration invested $25 million through DARPA for research into the mRNA platform for pandemic response. This was followed by a $125 million investment by BARDA in 2015, so that by the end of the Obama administration, mRNA vaccines and therapeutics were being tested in both animals and humans.

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brer cat

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4. Thanks, Obama.

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Fri Dec 31, 2021, 02:29 PM

Dec 2021

Not that tfg will give any credit.

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Raftergirl

(1,287 posts)

5. A study just out of SA

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Fri Dec 31, 2021, 02:38 PM

Dec 2021

showed B cells and T cells people vaxxed with Pfizer, J &J and in people with precious infections - 70-80% effective in preventing serious Omicron infection.

RussBLib

(9,019 posts)

6. figures TFG would try to take all the credit

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Fri Dec 31, 2021, 02:45 PM

Dec 2021

and, as usual, Dems are mostly too humble to get up on their soapbox and proclaim

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,861 posts)

7. Most people have just about zero understanding of how science

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Fri Dec 31, 2021, 03:46 PM

Dec 2021

actually works. That's the essential problem.

KT2000

(20,581 posts)

8. Not just luck

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Sat Jan 1, 2022, 03:32 PM

Jan 2022

As Rep Foster points out in his page - it was forward thinking President Obama who saw the need for development.

Foster said, “Heeding the advice of his scientific panel, in 2013 the Obama Administration invested $25 million through DARPA for research into the mRNA platform for pandemic response. This was followed by a $125 million investment by BARDA in 2015, so that by the end of the Obama administration, mRNA vaccines and therapeutics were being tested in both animals and humans.

https://foster.house.gov/media/press-releases/foster-highlights-president-obama-s-contribution-to-rapid-vaccine-development

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