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mattkrause on Feb 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation...

It’s simply not true that all of the candidate vaccines worked.

- The Sanofi-GSK one produced meh immune responses in the elderly, which is the population most at risk. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sanofi-gsk-vaccine-covid19-tr...)

- Merck/MSD abandoned TWO candidates, V590 and V591. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of...

- CSL/Queensland abandoned theirs because it interfered with HIV tests. https://www.csl.com/news/2020/20201211-update-on-the-univers...

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