cyndaquil
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So why then people get vaxxed and it supposed to remember but we still getting breakthrough infections?
How MRNA vaccines work for you remedial nikkas
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Because not every body's immune system is built the same.
To give an extreme example, a healthy 25-year-old and an obese 60-year-old cancer survivor have different strengths of immune system. Both could be vaccinated, but one is more likely to have a breakthrough.
Even if your body knows what's coming, if it's too weak to fight it, that's an issue. You still have a better chance of wining that fight if your immune system has the necessary info, though.
mRNA technology is cool. Just injects you basically with dummy binding proteins to provoke a reaction without your body ever having to see the actual virus. They are way more effective than adenovirus vaccines just looking at the numbers.
cyndaquil
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But we got people wirh strong immune systems in their 20s getting breakthrough infections after the booster from omicron.
That doesn't explain it fully
Because the virus mutates and creates new proteins that can get past the immune system
One of the initial talking points of the MRNA was it was highly adaptable and they could program changes as new variants emerge. I don't understand why they haven't done this for Omicron
cyndaquil
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But they said the vaccine works on the new variants
one of the reasons omicron is so mild is the vaccine is working
Is that true? I haven't seen the numbers to say if it is or isn't compared to how it's affecting unvaxxed.. it seemed to pass thru South Africa without a big increase in deaths/hospitalizations.
Anecdotally it seems to me more vaxxed people (myself included) are getting actual symptoms off Omicron compared to Alpha or Delta. Just from people I know, my Twitter TL, and this forum.
HIV is the GOAT virus. Our defense system (T-cells and macrophages) can't destroy it, in fact, the virus awaits for their arrival so it can be transported throughout the body for further replication.
There's more to it that involves the envelope and bodily functions but that's the gist of it.
HIV is Curry in this gif. The body is so worried about it doing damage that it still racks up numbers anyways by just being around.
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The Pfizer and Moderna boosters do deal with it for Omicron, but not the OG formula that we started off with.
You are right. Two people offered answers that help to explain it, and I will add that even a healthy person's immune system is susceptible to immediate stressors. If you're having a tough time at your job - or you just lost it and are scrambling to find another one - or you have family problems, or even if you just stayed up late to party one night and only got five hours of sleep, that all can weaken you enough to have a breakthrough if you are exposed to the virus, even if vaccinated.
Are you saying the boosters have been tweaked? My understanding is the formula has not been changed.
