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by ifyoubuildit 1121 days ago
Not sure if this is the case for parent, but there was such a huge marketing push behind the covid vaccines that it's the first thing that jumps to everyone's mind in any vaccine related topic.

It's kind of like after everyone being inundated with talk about covid for years, there is a tendency to assume every health issue is related to it. Some things definitely will be, but it turns out the universe of things that can go wrong with a human body goes far beyond one recent virus.
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toomuchtodo 1121 days ago
It's not marketing, mRNA technology is truly a shift in how rapid vaccine development can occur [1] [2].

[1] https://www.jci.org/articles/view/153721

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8905605/

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ifyoubuildit 1121 days ago
It's not either/or, both things can be true. The mrna vaccines have probably had more resources spent on promoting them than any product in recent history (ie marketing). I would argue that their mindshare is due to that and not some innate ability of the public to know what will be a successful pharmaceutical technology or not.

This is all orthogonal to whether or not the tech eventually delivers on all the possibilities.

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