Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/k2G_5M6yWuY   A virus-like particle vaccine created from plant protein blended with CoVid spike proteins is safe and effective.  A US-Canadian team, helmed by Stanford University virologists, now announces their results on the biorixiv.org pre-print server after testing the vaccine in a monkey model.   Two vaccine doses were necessary to trigger a protective antibody response and proper stimulation of T-killer cells.  The vaccine did reduce levels of live CoVid harvested using nasal swabs and improved the lung appearance of infected animals in comparison with those unvaccinated.   Whether this plant-derived Covid vaccine proves better than the mRNA vaccines or the nanoparticle vaccines remains to be proven.   https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.15.444262v1   #plant #CoVid #vaccine