RSV and Coronavirus Vaccines: Immune Enhancement Concerns
Vaccine actually did worse and
I believe there were two deaths
in the consequence of that study
because what happens with certain types of respiratory virus vaccines
you get immunized and
then when you get actually exposed to the virus
you get this kind of paradoxical Immune enhancement phenomenon
and what how and and we
we don't entirely understand the basis of it
But we recognize that it's a real problem
for certain respiratory virus vaccines
that killed the RSV program
For decades now the Gates Foundation is taking it up again
But when we started developing coronavirus vaccines
and our colleagues we noticed in laboratory animals
That they started to show some of the same immune pathology
that resembled what had happened 50 years earlier
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