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Faunsdale, AL | The problem is vaccine production is a blunt implement. In its current form, It requires a 6 month lead time and there’s no good way to ensure the strains that will be circulating during the subsequent flu season will be the ones included.
MRNA vaccine technology offers a way to shorten that lead time as well as to get away from propagating the virus in chick embryos. Our flu vaccine production system is antiquated and hampers the effectiveness of a proven public health technique.
I read the article as written to appeal the people who want to pick apart all public health responses by pointing out the tweaks that would be possible if each of us had our own B and T cells cultured and evaluated for the strains of flu that we are most responsive against. Obviously that’s not something that’s available as a public health intervention. So we’re limited to the improvements that are available to us …….IF……… we’re willing to use them and don’t exclude things (mRNA technology for example) that aren’t politically popular. | |
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Flu vaccine article
