{"id":38538,"date":"2020-04-03T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38538"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:16:50","slug":"a-very-interesting-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38538","title":{"rendered":"A Very Interesting Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2020\/04\/03\/breakthrough-scientists-say-theyve-developed-a-wuhan-coronavirus-vaccine-that-c-n2566284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Townhall<\/a> is reporting today that a group of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine believe that they may have found a vaccine for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/02\/scientists-believe-they-found-potential-coronavirus-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The researchers announced their findings Thursday and believe the vaccine could be rolled out quickly enough to \u201csignificantly impact the spread of disease,\u201d according to their study published in EBioMedicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The vaccine would be delivered on a small, fingertip-sized patch. When tested on mice, the vaccine produced enough antibodies believed to successfully counteract the virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThese two viruses, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, teach us that a particular protein, called a spike protein, is important for inducing immunity against the virus,\u201d read a statement from co-senior author Andrea Gambotto, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe knew exactly where to fight this new virus.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Researchers said they sided with using a patch, rather than a traditional needle, to deliver the spike protein to the skin, which elicits the strongest immune reaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The patch contains 400 tiny \u201cmicroneedles\u201d made of sugar and protein pieces. It would be applied like a Band-Aid with the needles dissolving into the skin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The vaccine would be \u201chighly scalable\u201d for widespread use, the researchers said in a news release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned. This may be the best news we have had since January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall is reporting today that a group of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine believe that they may have found a vaccine for the coronavirus. The article quotes The New York Post: The researchers announced their findings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12501,657,11119,8321,11619,2119,7654,8688],"class_list":["post-38538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-new-york-post","tag-research","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-townhall","tag-townhall-com","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38539,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38538\/revisions\/38539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}