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   Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 19:07:17 JST Infoseepage

   • Giuseppe Michieli

   @GMIK69 The moderate scenario is doses for half the world, but 80% of that production capacity is based on eggs. That's also doses and not treatment courses and at least with the stockpiled H5 vaccines, I was hearing a lot about how a single dose didn't stimulate enough of an immune response, so we might be looking at a two or more doses scenario like with Covid (and a whole lot of other vaccines).

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 19:30:58 JST Infoseepage

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     • Giuseppe Michieli

     @GMIK69 When we had lockdowns and everyone was masking (a lot with shitty cloth masks or just surgical), we basically wiped a flu strain almost completely off the map. N95's are far more efficient at preventing transmission. The one thing viruses can't defeat is physics.

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     Giuseppe Michieli (gmik69@mstdn.science)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 19:31:00 JST Giuseppe Michieli

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     @Infoseepage It could be also necessary to increase the antigen titer because seasonal flu dosage is not enough to achieve seroconversion. Perhaps it could do better with N95 masks to prevent or slow down pandemic flu instead of these old-fashioned and inefficient vaccines.