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| * //"[[mRNA]] is a new technology that has incredible potency in fighting [[COVID-19]], cancers and possibly other viruses. When I was a lab student 20 years ago, this stuff was science fiction, and the advances made are just incredible. **With virus variants, we all need periodic boosters, possibly for years**, as we do with the flu. We have the expertise, from the testimony we heard earlier, from companies such as [[pharmaceutical_companies:Acuitas_Therapeutics|Acuitas]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Providence Therapeutics]] that can make it here. **It is also the promise of second-generation genetic vaccines that can induce longer immunity, and these companies are working on it**, the ones that we spoke to."// | * //"[[mRNA]] is a new technology that has incredible potency in fighting [[COVID-19]], cancers and possibly other viruses. When I was a lab student 20 years ago, this stuff was science fiction, and the advances made are just incredible. **With virus variants, we all need periodic boosters, possibly for years**, as we do with the flu. We have the expertise, from the testimony we heard earlier, from companies such as [[pharmaceutical_companies:Acuitas_Therapeutics|Acuitas]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Providence Therapeutics]] that can make it here. **It is also the promise of second-generation genetic vaccines that can induce longer immunity, and these companies are working on it**, the ones that we spoke to."// |
| * //"Another frontline insight is that **some have been able to squeeze extra half doses out the [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] vials and combine them into a single dose**, but they are being discarded right now because there's **no approval for unorthodox procedures like that. However, in a crisis such this, we should look at any option."**// | * //"Another frontline insight is that **some have been able to squeeze extra half doses out the [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] vials and combine them into a single dose**, but they are being discarded right now because there's **no approval for unorthodox procedures like that. However, in a crisis such this, we should look at any option."**// |
| * //"...we are discounting the long-term consequences of even mild COVID-19 infections on younger populations. We should not assume that if they only get mild or moderate illness they're fine. In fact, 15% of them will get what's called “long COVID syndrome”. They'll have memory issues, chronic pain and chronic fatigue, and this will last possibly for years. They won't be able to go to school or work in their jobs. Normally healthy, able-bodied people will have their quality of life ruined and forced onto long-term disability at extreme cost to themselves and their families, and this might even affect children. Imagine if 15% of our children couldn't taste anything or had chronic pain and were unable to go to school."// | * //"...we are discounting the long-term consequences of even mild COVID-19 infections on younger populations. We should not assume that if they only get mild or moderate illness they're fine. In fact, **15% of them will get what's called “long COVID syndrome”. They'll have memory issues, chronic pain and chronic fatigue, and this will last possibly for years. They won't be able to go to school or work in their jobs. Normally healthy, able-bodied people will have their quality of life ruined and forced onto long-term disability at extreme cost to themselves and their families, and this might even affect children.** Imagine if 15% of our children couldn't taste anything or had chronic pain and were unable to go to school."// |
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