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by throwayyy479087 1232 days ago
Why isn’t this result much bigger news?
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Because most people stopped being afraid of Covid.
it's known well in the countries that have nasal vaccines already. one can only speculate about the united states.

i can see benefits to touting 94+% efficacy for the intramuscular vaccines (with the fine print that efficacy is only measuring reduction of severe infection), because it does help prevent hospitalizations and deaths. i think it would be difficult to convince a population to vaccinate while saying it doesn't prevent infection.

the good news is we will have a nasal vaccine that will prevent a whole class of colds/flus, maybe in a decade or so.
Rhetorical question.