Unfortunately, even Twitter and Facebook have limitations to their identification of misinformation and disinformation...this is done because the tweet has been labeled as something that can not be replied to, shared or liked. Simply, no further conversation.
Once in awhile I will waste my time and energy to explain why something is misinformation/disinformation but this far into the Pandemic as it traverses into an Endemic...the misinformation/disinformation is now laughable to me because its being spread by ignorant individuals that fell down some rabbit hole.
Its sad that someone does not have the ability to look into why the tweet is labeled as misinformation before spreading the misinformation to other social media formats like Elitetrader.com
It's ignorant and its intentionally done by someone not in the right mind.
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WHAT STEFAN OELRICH REALLY SAID ABOUT BAYER
The speech of Stefan Oelrich, therefore, it was focused on new technologies and on the feedback they could have in the population in terms of trust. Hence, the fact that the world has embraced the mRna vaccines could lead the way, according to the executive Bayer, to new technologies in the medical field such as cell and gene therapies, the same that the German multinational has been studying for some time, for example against Parkinson’s disease and sickle cell anemia.
Therefore, Oelrich does not claim that mRna Covid vaccines are gene therapy, but that they are an example of what gene or cell therapy can be.
Look at the words below very carefully..."for that" versus "of that".
- He stated...“Ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy”
- He did not state...“Ultimately mRNA vaccines are an example of that cell and gene therapy"
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Why mRNA vaccines aren’t gene therapies
We bust another Covid-19 myth – this time about how mRNA vaccines work – in our latest blog post
As people in the UK continue to receive Covid-19 vaccines, the subject of how and why they work is being widely discussed online. Some people are promoting the idea that RNA-based vaccines – including the UK-approved Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – are a form of gene therapy, but this isn’t accurate.
RNA: a closer look
RNA is closely related to Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)...the chemical that contains, or ‘encodes’, genetic information. DNA is made up of four different chemical bases known as ‘A’ (adenine), ‘C’ (cytosine), ‘G’ (guanine) and ‘T’ (thymine)...RNA performs different but equally important functions. While our genetic information is stored as DNA in the cell nucleus, RNA acts as an intermediary, allowing the genes to be expressed.
When a gene is expressed, it is copied into RNA. This is known as a messenger RNA (mRNA) – the type used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
- The mRNA travels out of the cell nucleus to be used as a template to make a protein. Once the protein is made, the mRNA gets broken down.
How the vaccines work
All of the Covid-19 vaccines approved in the UK work by presenting a single protein that appears on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – known as the ‘spike protein’ – to the body’s immune system.
This allows the body to develop antibodies against the protein, so that if the body encounters the same protein again (notably, when a person is infected with the virus), then the immune system can react much more quickly. This process mimics the way our bodies react to many infections that we would encounter naturally.
Although all of the vaccines work by exploiting the spike protein, the way they do so is different.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is a type of vaccine called a viral vector. It works by using a harmless virus that has been altered to have the SARS-CoV-2 protein on its surface.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines use a different approach. Instead of the vaccine containing the protein itself, it contains instructions about how to make the protein, so that the cells in our bodies can manufacture it.
The mRNA is packaged in a capsule called a lipid nanoparticle, which acts as a delivery vehicle to allow the mRNA to safely enter the cells in the body. From there, the mRNA is treated the same as any other – it is used by the cells as a template to build the protein and is then broken down. After the spike protein is manufactured by the vaccinated cell, it causes an immune response in the same way as traditional vaccines.
As mRNAs are broken down by the cell after they have been used, the RNA from the vaccine does not persist in cells. It is helpful to think of the mRNA vaccine has being a one-time set of instructions that the body then ‘forgets’, and this is very different to how gene therapies work.
Gene therapies vs mRNA therapies
Gene therapies involve making deliberate changes to a patient’s DNA in order to cure or alleviate a Genetic condition that is the result of variants in the genome.
This can be by adding a functional copy of a gene, disabling a gene that makes a faulty product or changing gene activation.
The mRNA from the vaccines does not enter the cell nucleus or interact with the DNA at all, so it does not constitute gene therapy.
Gene therapies can have long-lasting effects because they permanently change the cell’s DNA, with these changes being inherited by any Daughter cells genetically identical cells formed when a cell undergoes division by mitosis...daughter cells that result if the cell divides.
- In contrast, mRNAs are always transitory and are not inherited by daughter cells, making them ideal for use in vaccines.
https://www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.uk/blog/why-mrna-vaccines-arent-gene-therapies/
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