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Anastasis

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  1. 23 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    I’m not gonna lie. The speed for the approval of this vax has me anxious.

    The process was quick, but the data are what they are.  We have 30k+ exposed to each vax with a few months of follow-up.  There are drugs approved every year with far less exposure and follow-up. In many cases it can take 10+ years for the post marketing safety surveillance to shake out.  Roll with it.  If we fail, we are going to fail quick and fail big. Also, Robert E Lee could probably do better logistics around the distribution.   

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  2. 3 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    I have no idea what any of this means but can't the Government take the "recipe" for this vaccine and give it to Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Roche, etc... and say produce the shit out of this and we will work with the military to get it distributed to every HEB, Walgreens, CVS in the country.  Hell they could go door to door and vaccinate whole neighborhoods if needed.  

    Why stop at taking the recipe? Why not just federalize all the pharmacies in the country and make all the immunization certified pharmacists federal employees. We don't even have to pay them, just make them go door to door pumping shots.  

  3. On 12/26/2020 at 9:20 PM, Tony Two K said:

    Basically the @jimmyjazz recipe with a couple pounds of leftover brisket substituted in. Outstanding.

     

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    Brisket in chili is otherworldly.  Haven't had any brisket around since I converted to the Church of the Holy Hydrated Chili Pepper. Gonna have to cook a brisket just to baptize it and bring it into the fullness of the faith. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, Nivek said:

    HEB is out.  The hospital and the associated medical group has it, but they have decided that if you are an established enough patient, you can get fucked.  I guess I missed the 1a, 1b, 1c, boarding program where there were additional criteria that could be added upon a whim.  

    I agree with your earlier point.  At least wrt the moderna vax, this is was developed with public funding.  Individual institutions should not be creating additional barriers to vaccination. HEB wouldn't act like assholes. 

  5. 3 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    Couldn’t Trump have enacted the Defense Act in order to produce more vaccines by taking the “recipe’ away from Moderna or Pfizer and giving it to every pharmaceutical company with the orders to produce enough of this stuff so we can vaccinate all of America by the end of February?  I am legitimately asking this question as I really don’t know the answer but I would think that would get the US economy up and running much quicker which is good for everybody.  

    As I understand it, the real IP is in the nanoparticles that package the mRNA for delivery...

    The mRNA just codes a slightly modified spike protein...(proline stabilized, developed by a UT-Austin lab) 

    https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/01/how-nanotechnology-helps-mrna-covid19-vaccines-work

    https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behind-COVID-19/98/i38

    https://www.mclellanlab.org/

     

    I am not sure that there is much untapped production capacity, but if it can be demonstrated that there is, somebody better explain why it is not being used to pump out vax. 

     

  6. 3 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I agree with leveraging the private sector. That's why the defense production act exists.

    We're talking about putting shots in arms.  I have no problem with invoking the DPA if needed, but you don't have to do that to mobilize the resources necessary here.  Suggesting that the roll out in Texas would be better managed and more efficient if HHSC turned the job over to HEB is apparently a BOTH SIDES! thing though.   

     

  7. H-E-B actually has most of the infrastructure in place, including immunization certified pharmacists. Why wouldn’t you leverage the private sector? No no no. What we need is more bureaucrats involved cause that is what it takes to deliver that vax into arms. 

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