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Brian Mowrey's avatar

Awesome coverage by Gutschi.

I believe the Australian Nonclinical Eval has cryoEM of the Pfizer mRNA-encoded spike on page 37 https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-2389-06.pdf

This was at the stage where they were still considering four builds. The text doesn't actually make it clear that what we are looking at is from any of them, let alone BNT162b2.

The 30% benchmark for flow cytometry might not correspond to transfection rate since that's essentially a semi-quantitative assay, and might not catch all cells that are producing spike - it could be that the real-world rate is higher at least when all the other stars align and the gods of stainless steel shavings grant their blessing.

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TFish's avatar

Thank you for bringing Maria Gutschi’s work to attention. Such an important piece, along with Latypova, and JJ Couey.

Just one quibble: ‘National Security’ is a highly problematic phrase. I would caution against its use here. It has been popularized for very specific messaging from the MIIC and has, and continues to be, used as a justification for all manner of illegality, secrecy, and fraud. I understand the intent of the concern raised here, but this phrase should be thoroughly parsed and must be considered a highly loaded label.

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