Tobacco-Based Covid Vaccine Passes Trials

[SheltieLover]

https://tobaccoreporter.com/2020/09/01/tobacco-based-covid-vaccine-passes-animal-trials-in-thailand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tobacco-based-covid-vaccine-passes-animal-trials-in-thailand

Thai Covid-19 vaccine produced with proteins from tobacco leaves has proved successful in animal tests.

Thiravat Hemachudha, head of the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Disease Health Science Center, said the latest vaccine had been tested on mice and monkeys with satisfactory results and will now go through a purification process before it is tested in human trials.

Developed by a Thai company named Bai Ya, the vaccine is produced by integrating the virus’ DNA into tobacco leaves. The plant responds to the DNA and produces the desired proteins about a week later. Hemachudha said the vaccine not only produces antibodies but can also stimulate T cells to produce antibodies themselves when meeting the virus.

Bai Ya is reportedly in talks with the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) to see if it is ready to collaborate in the purification process of the vaccine candidate. If the NVI agrees to take part, the vaccine will be ready for human trials in three months.

More at link. What do you think?

[d_b]

1. Smoke em if you got em

[unblock]

2. Fascinating. We hijack normal functioning of a tobacco lead so it does something that helps us to

defeat a virus that hijacks normal functioning of our own cells to do something that helps the virus.

[BootinUp]

3. Neato. And I recall that cannabis is thought

To provide some ability to combat it. That’s my excuse, lol.

[Journeyman]

4. Sounds about right. You should pursue this study, day and night . . .

[BootinUp]

13. My study will be double blind*

*may not mean what u think

[Nictuku]

8. I read somewhere that smokers (cigs) seemed to be effected by covid to a lesser degree

[StarryNite]

9. Smoking Nearly Doubles the Rate of COVID-19 Progression

Smoking Nearly Doubles the Rate of COVID-19 Progression

Excerpt:

"In a meta-analysis of studies that included 11,590 COVID patients, researchers found that among people with the virus, the risk of disease progression in those who currently smoke or previously smoked was nearly double that of non-smokers. They also found that when the disease worsens, current or former smokers had more acute or critical conditions or death. Overall, smoking was associated with almost a doubling of the risk of disease progressing."

[link:https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417411/smoking-nearly-doubles-rate-covid-19-progression|

[denem]

12. A study by the Center for Tobacco Control Research

Would you expect a contrary conclusion?

The relationship between smoking and COVID-19 is controversial -

Among unsettled controversies is whether tobacco smoking increases or protects from severe COVID‐19. Several epidemiological studies reported reduced COVID‐19 hospitalizations among smokers, while other studies reported the opposite trend.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ddr.21729

[babylonsister]

11. I read that also. Here:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/02/smokers-seem-less-likely-than-non-smokers-to-fall-ill-with-covid-19

Smokers seem less likely than non-smokers to fall ill with covid-19

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Go figure...................

You spend years fighting smoking, gaining enemies, offending friends and family, and for what?

Tobacco-Based Covid Vaccine Passes Trials
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Is there a "message" in this?

[OregonBlue]

10. But several studies have shown that nicotine, not cigarettes seems to weaken the virus.

[Mike 03]

6. Interesting. This sentence really holds out hope:

Hemachudha said the vaccine not only produces antibodies but can also stimulate T cells to produce antibodies themselves when meeting the virus.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I would enjoy a carton of Marlboro Light 100s

a lot more than a shot. I quit smoking last year, though, so I guess I shouldn't do that. Maybe I could have one pack with a couple of beers.