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Now do Covaxin.

Seriously: what's the hold-up? Why is the US still blocking this vaccine?

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The US doesn't need it.

Other countries are entirely free to approve it for their citizens.

The US needs it if they want people who are spooked my mRNA tech to get vaccinated. They also need it if they want a vaccine that is the mostly likely to be safe for use in children.

The US has the J&J vaccine for that.

It's a similar mechanism, right? You're just using a virus to carry the genetic material, which also involves an extra transcription step in the cell (what is theorized as causing mutations in the spike and thus the stroke/clotting issues). Still quite different from the traditional inactive or protein based ones.

Transcription causes mutations in the spike that causes clotting issues? Do you have any idea how much transcription happens in your cells, every moment of every day? You need to reconsider where you’re getting your information.

Here you go:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/05/27/why-are-aztrazeneca...

https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/155536/bre...

There's the Novavax one. It's been in testing about as long as Pfizer and is US based. It hasn't been pushed along with the help of a larger partner like the others. Maybe they will get there. I would have preferred a vaccine using more traditional technology due to the lack of information on the potential for autoimmune conditions in the future.

That's assuming they're not going to find out yet another excuse. Both vector vaccines and inactivated virus vaccines have faced just as much opposition.

Yeah, people seem to be forgetting the anti-vaxx movement that was already brewing way before COVID.

The opposition to rushed or mandated COVID vaccination has close to zero ties to the “anti-vaccine” movement. Unless you watch CNN and MSNBC as your primary source of news, of course.

if you don't think there's significant overlap I have a bridge to sell you

In either case, while non-mRNA vaccines may incentive the 'vaccine hesitant' to get poked, no amount of modification or scientific advance will get anti-vaxxers to get immunized edit: with a vaccine (I'm assuming an FDA-approved small molecule therapeutic would be OK with some of them).

Astrazeneca and J&J are both non-mRNA vaccines.

AZ isn't available in the United States.

OK, fine, it's not just mRNA. It's novel tech vs. well known tech like attenuated/inactivated virus.

Beyond that, Covaxin is the only that I'm aware of that is performing well under delta.

Pfizer is performing well under delta:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

The FDA asked for information on the stage 3 clinical trails (which is a normal thing to get) and instead of providing it they decided to go for full approval.

Which is really strange. Unclear why they would do that.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-was-bharat-bio...

Are they blocking it? I thought they don't have the production numbers to be able to export.

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