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The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first.
The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated individuals, according to an announcement posted on an official city social media account.
Needle-free vaccines may persuade people who don’t like getting a shot to get vaccinated, as well as help expand vaccination in poor countries because they are easier to administer.
China doesn’t have vaccine mandates but wants more people to get booster shots before it relaxes strict pandemic restrictions that are holding back the economy and increasingly out of synch with the rest of the world.
A video posted by an online Chinese state media outlet showed people at a community health center sticking the short nozzle of a translucent white cup into their mouths. Accompanying text said that after slowly inhaling, one individual held his breath for five seconds, with the entire procedure completed in 20 seconds.
“It was like drinking a cup of milk tea,” one Shanghai resident said in the video. “When I breathed it in, it tasted a bit sweet.”
What is to stop someone from taking this stuff and having it going out vents in public places? They were wanting people to be mandated to get a bunch of shots that don't do the stated purpose for a reason. Now they can force the chemicals into the air and make you breathe them in.
Since the Covid bugs are almost all airborne infectives, it makes a lot of sense to inoculate nasally or orally. And there have been some such attempts already with nasal. I don't know their endpoints.
Apparently it's an adenovirus vaccine similar to the one from J&J. India is working on something comparable. It might make the vaccine easier to deliver world-wide, but I don't see any information on the efficacy. The J&J vaccine didn't do as well as the mRNA vaccines, IIRC.
It's beneficial to us in the US if the vaccine gets distributed widely and rapidly because it will reduce the odds of new variants getting imported.
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