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Offshoot of Another Thread - Why does Covid Vaccine have to be so Cold?
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:54 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:54 am
It has to be stored and shipped at -73C.
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Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:54 am to blueridgeTiger
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 10:55 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:55 am to blueridgeTiger
Apparently, the Moderna vaccine can be stored at regular refrigerator temperatures.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:55 am to blueridgeTiger
The aliens from whom the DNA is derived live on an icy planet.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:56 am to blueridgeTiger
I remember back in March we were told that the virus would die off in the summer because it couldn't survive high temperatures and would come back in the fall/winter when temps dropped again. Vaccines contain live strains of whatever virus it's meant to protect again so I'd guess the virus has to remain alive in order for the vaccine to be effective.
That's my purely non-scientific amateur opinion.
That's my purely non-scientific amateur opinion.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:56 am to blueridgeTiger
Google for fricks sake.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:56 am to blueridgeTiger
They should have let the folks who make Spam develope it. That shite can survive a nuclear war.
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 10:57 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:56 am to blueridgeTiger
quote:
Vaccines made from mRNA can be made much faster than older vaccines could, explains Margaret Liu, a vaccine researcher who chairs the board of the International Society for Vaccines and specializes in genetic vaccines. The problem, says Liu, is that mRNA is "really easily destroyed, and that's because there are many, many enzymes that will just break it apart."
Here's an analogy: Think of the vaccine as a chocolate bar that melts easily. Just as there are ways to keep the chocolate from melting into goo, there are things the drugmakers did to protect their COVID-19 vaccines.
NPR article on vaccine
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:57 am to DomincDecoco
I’ve read that it’s just really unstable and will degrade easily and become ineffective
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:57 am to blueridgeTiger
Lipids will turn to oil
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:57 am to TDsngumbo
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Vaccines contain live strains of whatever virus
I thought this wasn’t that type of vaccine
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:58 am to blueridgeTiger
So the polar bear seamon it’s made from doesn’t melt
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 10:58 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:58 am to BluegrassBelle
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Think of the vaccine as a chocolate bar that melts easily.
Good God
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:59 am to blueridgeTiger
Well now they're reporting a new strain of covid-19, so don't rush out and get the vaccine just yet.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:59 am to PrivatePublic
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Good God
It's just an analogy. Simmah down.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:59 am to blueridgeTiger
To preserve it - mRNA technology was just approved for this usage - the vaccine loses efficacy as it ages
I’m guessing the cold keeps the vaccine ‘viable’ - although it is not a live, inactivated, or dead virus
It’s something scientists and doctors have been working on for 30 years
I’m guessing the cold keeps the vaccine ‘viable’ - although it is not a live, inactivated, or dead virus
It’s something scientists and doctors have been working on for 30 years
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:00 am to blueridgeTiger
Because you touch yourself at night.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:00 am to blueridgeTiger
The cold temperature keeps the nano-bots inactive so they remain undetected. They activate once they get warmed up by your body's internal temperature 
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:02 am to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:03 am to blueridgeTiger
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It has to be stored and shipped at -73C.
The nucleotide structure of the vaccine is incredible unstable. Incredibly cold conditions are required to keep it stable and not morphing into other structures.
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