mRNA vaccines:

[applegrove]

America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk

mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) 2025-08-18T13:42:00.619Z

[HappyH]

1. The Nobel prize in medicine was awarded to two docs who worked to develop the Covid vaccine.

One is a female Hungarian immigrant. I wonder if her gender and ethnicity played any role in the administration’s trashing of mRNA vaccine research.

[WSHazel]

2. This has an impact beyond just mRNA technology

The message America is sending to the research community is that we can't be trusted to keep politics out of science, and they are better off going somewhere that can be trusted. The impact of these decisions will extend well beyond this Administration.

[hamsterjill]

3. I don't know if anyone here is familiar with cat diseases, but I just used a new protocol

There is a cat disease called Feline Infectious Peritonitis which, until a couple of years ago, was always fatal. The disease is complicated, and I'm no scientist. But the disease involves the mutation of the corona virus in a small number of cats.

I've been in rescue for about 45 years. I've lost more cats to this disease than I would like to count.

Using a new protocol (GS441524) which was on the black market for a couple of years because wasn't legal in the United Statues - and now it is legal enough that veterinarians ARE prescribing it - one of my rescues was saved and completed the protocol and observation period in June.

I cannot tell you HOW amazing this is. The research into this new medication is was all related to the research on the MRNA vaccines. So I've seen INCREDIBLE in action.

To cease this research is going to cost millions of lives.