My wife and I get the new Moderna variant tweaked test programme vax Tuesday.

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4. the two variants (Brasilian / South African) are nasty, and can cause full blown (and a worse form)

disease in people who already had the original strain. Brasil itself is a shitshow with second cases and deaths from the P.1 variant. Same for the South African variant.

We were included in the study because of our personal circumstances, not despite them, plus we have been involved in the original strain study for 10 straight months, blood draws every 2 weeks, plus numerous other visits, like clockwork, we have never missed a blood draw or a single study appointment.

This is not a normal vaccine administration. This a highly experimental form that carries significant risk, and we had to sign additional waivers simply to take part in the trial. We are doing it to help people, not out of some selfish motivation at all. The hospital is an hour away (each way) via train and bus from our flat, and we are committing the next 6 months (at least) of our lives to participating in it.

I am sorry if you disagree with our choice, but we are fully invested in doing whatever we can to try and help. The EU (and many other nations) is getting shredded by these variants. Paris is going into a 30 day complete lock down. These new vaccines will likely save hundreds of thousands (millions perhaps if you widen it out to a global footprint) of lives. If these two variants become dominant in the US, and there is not an effective vaccine, all bets are off.