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WHITT

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4. AstraZeneca

Reply to democrattotheend (Original post)

Tue Aug 31, 2021, 03:13 PM

Aug 2021

has a hybrid of the old dead-virus vaccine, but because we have a long licensing process, it was already green-lighted by the British system, and only requires normal refrigerated storage, the administration donated our inventory of the AstraZeneca to other countries.

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Are there any traditional (attenuated) COVID vaccines in the works? What is their status? [View all] democrattotheend Aug 2021 OP

Codagenix dalton99a Aug 2021 #1

Oh yeah, I think I saw that one democrattotheend Aug 2021 #2

Codagenix (an intranasal route attenuated vaccine) is very promising BUT it is a fully bioengineered hlthe2b Aug 2021 #3

AstraZeneca WHITT Aug 2021 #4

I thought J&J was also made this way and requires only normal Merlot Aug 2021 #5

I asked them about that democrattotheend Aug 2021 #7

AstraZeneca & J&J use adenovirus-vetored vaccine within which a portion of COVID spike protein hlthe2b Aug 2021 #8

A traditional vaccine would actually be less safe than the mRNA vaccines Ocelot II Aug 2021 #6

Sinovac and Sinopharm, but I doubt they're going to apply for US clearance muriel_volestrangler Aug 2021 #9