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Edward Nirenberg
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The term for these symptoms is reactogenicity (things like local injection site pain, redness, swelling, fever, joint aches, muscle aches, nausea, etc.). These are signs of the immune response ramping up and they are not in and of themselves dangerous, but they are definitely unpleasant.
It is not merely that this technology could potentially achieve the miraculous, but ignoring this is a massive biosecurity risk. mRNA vaccines are not the answer to everything (at least, not yet), but there is so much more they could be capable of, and our government is too busy pandering to invest.
But it turns out the ability to induce a strong immune response is separate from these effects and we have had a bunch of recent work showing that it is possible to simultaneously make mRNA vaccines more effective AND make them a much more tolerable experience for people:
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