Thank you, yes, Desmet is the person. Well worth a listen or read.
I no longer trust any official information unless I can verify it. So when I’m told that Sinovac is different, because it’s not gene-based but virus protein, I’m only half convinced.
It’s DEFINITELY not “traditional”. It couldn’t be because no one appears to have bulk cultured the virus. For example flu vaccine used to be grown in living chicken embryos Inside fertilised eggs, then collected & cleaned up before heat or chemical killing.
I suspect Sinovac is what’s called “recombinant”, which is where the genes encoding the entire virus is transfected into a suitable cell line (such as an insect cell), then treated as old flu vaccines).
If that’s what it is, I’m encouraged to expect a better safety profile because while you might still get a dose of spike protein, it cannot be more than the amount in the dose you get.
All the current gene-based vaccines can result in you & I making very different amounts of spike in variable anatomical locations. I think that’s what drives the extraordinarily bad safety profile.
So while I’m optimistic that safety might be better & efficacy too, since your immune system should become familiar with all of the virus, I need to see a lot more evidence yet.
Perhaps they don’t express all of the virus but only spike? That could definitely still be very dangerous.
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