I guess a thing that still bugs me after reading the rest of the comments is, if it turns out that this vaccine only offers protection against inhaling the virus though the nose, how much does that help when one considers that one could also inhale it through the mouth? Like, I worry that after taking this I’d still need to avoiding indoor spaces with other people, etc, which would defeat a lot of the benefit of it.
But, if it turns out that it does yield antibodies in the blood, then… this sounds very much worth trying!
The biggest benefit seems to be that the immune system is primed in at least some fashion; it knows what to look for, and it has readily available tools that should be effective. It doesn’t have to take a day or a week to try random things before it finally discovers a particularly effective antibody and gets the production chain ramped up to start a proper immune response.
Instead, your immune system will very quickly get a signal it understands as bad and can immediately start ramping up when it does detect the virus.
Keep in mind that the commercial vaccines don’t have 100% success rate in that some people still get sick, but the ‘priming’ of the immune response is still there. I believe this is why the death rate / severe complications rate is effectively zero for immunized patients, even though it’s possible to get sick.
(Again, my understanding. I would very much appreciate correction/clarifications here.)
Wow!
I guess a thing that still bugs me after reading the rest of the comments is, if it turns out that this vaccine only offers protection against inhaling the virus though the nose, how much does that help when one considers that one could also inhale it through the mouth? Like, I worry that after taking this I’d still need to avoiding indoor spaces with other people, etc, which would defeat a lot of the benefit of it.
But, if it turns out that it does yield antibodies in the blood, then… this sounds very much worth trying!
My understanding is that it helps a lot.
The biggest benefit seems to be that the immune system is primed in at least some fashion; it knows what to look for, and it has readily available tools that should be effective. It doesn’t have to take a day or a week to try random things before it finally discovers a particularly effective antibody and gets the production chain ramped up to start a proper immune response.
Instead, your immune system will very quickly get a signal it understands as bad and can immediately start ramping up when it does detect the virus.
Keep in mind that the commercial vaccines don’t have 100% success rate in that some people still get sick, but the ‘priming’ of the immune response is still there. I believe this is why the death rate / severe complications rate is effectively zero for immunized patients, even though it’s possible to get sick.
(Again, my understanding. I would very much appreciate correction/clarifications here.)