COVID vaccination for animals
San Diego Zoo vaccinate great apes. We have discussed many animal species that also can contract SarsCov2 including primates, cats, mink, ferrets and to a lesser degree dogs. Zoetis (a major a...
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BCSnob wrote:
I don’t know about Dr Doug but I prefer to get my Covid-19 information from the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature, etc, and by reading preprint of studies on BioRxiv/MedRxiv as opposed to CNN or Fox News. While I don’t have the training in public health, virology and immunology that Dr Doug has (I have a PhD in Chemistry with >25 years as a research scientist) I do get to read about how diagnostic tests I have helped developed are being used in COVID-19 research and the clinical trials of several vaccines (for example the Moderna vaccine).
I think the vast majority of us here really appreciate your, and Dr Doug's, data-based information :-) Granted, there are some folks who are unable to interpret the studies as presented in a clinical manner - and then there's some who are simply not going to listen because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I'm grateful for the Covid vaccine, and glad they continue to research coronaviruses in animals. There's always a chance that something else dire, will decide to switch species....
