The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: BassWrangler on December 24, 2020, 02:48:00 pm
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A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines
https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/19/a-side-by-side-comparison-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-vaccines/ (https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/19/a-side-by-side-comparison-of-the-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-vaccines/)
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Similarities are greater than differences, this being the one major difference:
Storage requirements
Both of these vaccines require an elaborate cold chain, the term used to describe the conditions under which vaccines must be stored during distribution and when they are in the doctors’ offices, pharmacies, or public health clinics where they’ll be administered.
But the Moderna vaccine will be far easier to use than Pfizer’s. For starters, Moderna’s must be shipped at -4 Fahrenheit; Pfizer’s must be shipped and stored at -94 Fahrenheit. The former is the temperature of a regular refrigerator freezer; the latter requires special ultra-cold freezers that need to be topped up with dry ice every five days. Doctors’ offices do not have ultracold freezers; neighborhood pharmacies don’t either.
After thawing, a vial of the Pfizer vaccine must be used within five days; Moderna’s is stable at fridge temperature for 30 days and at room temperature for 12 hours.
Contradicting Melinda Gates' ignorant whine (about rich nations hogging the vaccines), neither vaccine is suitable for third-world usage -parts of the world where electric power is intermittent and proper cold transport and storage is not widely or reliably available.
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Similarities are greater than differences, this being the one major difference:
Contradicting Melinda Gates' ignorant whine (about rich nations hogging the vaccines), neither vaccine is suitable for third-world usage -parts of the world where electric power is intermittent and proper cold transport and storage is not widely or reliably available.
Yes. I think the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, assuming it makes it through the approval process, will be a better option in that regard.
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How well do they work when tampered with?
Worker deliberately spoiled 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Wisconsin health officials say
Associated Press
Dec 31, 2020
GRAFTON, Wis. (AP) — Police and federal authorities are investigating after an employee at a Wisconsin health system admitted to deliberately spoiling 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine.
Aurora Medical Center first reported that the doses has been spoiled on Saturday, saying they had been accidentally left out unrefrigerated overnight by an employee at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton. The health system said Wednesday that the doses of vaccine now appear to have been deliberately spoiled.
Police in Grafton, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Milwaukee, said in a statement that the department, FBI and Food and Drug Administration are "actively" investigating the case. ...
Rest of story (https://madison.com/news/national/worker-deliberately-spoiled-500-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-wisconsin-health-officials-say/article_7e16b4e6-a2ec-59db-9f9f-d36c2924feec.html)
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How well do they work when tampered with?Rest of story (https://madison.com/news/national/worker-deliberately-spoiled-500-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-wisconsin-health-officials-say/article_7e16b4e6-a2ec-59db-9f9f-d36c2924feec.html)
Existing thread about the story, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,424195.0.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,424195.0.html) .
I could check Moderna's FDA test protocol, but I'm pretty sure resistance to sabotage was not tested.