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HokieForever

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There is actually a common cold coronavirus vaccine


or some subset of vaccine against viruses that cause the common cold.

I know because my twins spent 4 months in the nicu, were released from the nicu around Thanksgiving 2013. In order to get the vaccine your kids had to qualify by your insurance and you had to get it every 30 days, your body at least a babies' did not keep antibodies any longer than that. The second month the paperwork or whatever was taking too long to process by the insurance company and the pediatrician didn't want to administer it without their approval. I pulled out my wallet to pay until I found out the cost $1500 per child per month, yes you read that right $3K. Guess what the credit card went back in the wallet.

We were on a single income at that point (mine) as we basically had to turn our house into it's own NICU so wife quit her job until they were 2 years old. No sick visitors, minimum outside exposure, etc.

I have no idea if it got cheaper, but it does exist. Just don't think the juice is worth the squeeze because it is for a niche market, immune compromised people? I can tell you that a different NICU baby born at 35 weeks died because of the common cold because he did not qualify for the vaccine.

HokieForever

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Posted: 08/24/2020 at 2:36PM



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Re-infection with COVID now more "official" -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 11:16AM
  How hard have they tried to make one though? -- Hokie360 08/24/2020 2:17PM
  There is actually a common cold coronavirus vaccine -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 2:36PM
  Yeah see below, had to go find it ** -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 2:49PM
  It was just for RSV (one of the common cold viruses) -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 2:43PM
  Perhaps AIDS. IDK. ** -- ColoVT82 08/24/2020 2:34PM
  Good article on Vaccine Development -- TechMomof2 08/24/2020 1:41PM
  It’s more about T cells and not antibodies ** -- VT Pops 08/24/2020 11:48AM
  That is one theory -- Baltimore Hokie 08/24/2020 2:54PM
  Point is -- VT Pops 08/24/2020 3:03PM
  T cells aren't a magic bullet either (see link) -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 12:18PM
  That reporter shot his credibility. -- RoswellGAHokie 08/24/2020 1:56PM
  We just need to all give up now -- fordham 08/24/2020 11:32AM
  Unfortunately, both sides -- GobblerCE 08/24/2020 12:44PM
  Unfortunately neither side -- RTFC 08/24/2020 6:58PM
  This -- Beerman 08/24/2020 12:16PM
  More official in that they genome sequenced -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 12:13PM
  What is the accuracy of these tests ** -- Hokie1992 08/24/2020 12:11PM
  Genome sequence? pretty accurate I would assume ** -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 12:25PM
  The rest was anecdotal -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 12:32PM
  That didn't really answer my question. ** -- vthokieq 08/24/2020 12:33PM
  I thought it did, not sure what you are asking then. ** -- HokieForever 08/24/2020 12:34PM

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