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Covid woo revisited
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kiaa"Coronavirus vaccines lead to infertility." Such allegations have been circulating on the social networks for months. Color me surprised. Heh.
At first it was claimed that women should be most worried about their reproductive abilities. There was even some pseudo-biological argument that the vaccine would build not only antibodies against the coronavirus, but also against a protein that is involved in the formation of the placenta in the uterus and plays a crucial role in pregnancy.
The reason cite was that this protein and the spike protein were very similar, at least that's what proponents of this theory of infertility claimed. Needless to say, professional researchers beg to differ. The coronavirus spike protein consists of 1273 amino acids and the other protein of 538. And only one segment of 5 amino acids is similar but not identical. That is, there is no resemblance at all.
But those are just some scientific facts, and we shouldn't let them get in the way of a well-crafted alarmist narrative, should we?
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At first it was claimed that women should be most worried about their reproductive abilities. There was even some pseudo-biological argument that the vaccine would build not only antibodies against the coronavirus, but also against a protein that is involved in the formation of the placenta in the uterus and plays a crucial role in pregnancy.
The reason cite was that this protein and the spike protein were very similar, at least that's what proponents of this theory of infertility claimed. Needless to say, professional researchers beg to differ. The coronavirus spike protein consists of 1273 amino acids and the other protein of 538. And only one segment of 5 amino acids is similar but not identical. That is, there is no resemblance at all.
But those are just some scientific facts, and we shouldn't let them get in the way of a well-crafted alarmist narrative, should we?
( Read more... )
