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  • idunnoman1222 2 hours ago

    if you ask hacker news about the impacts lets say, technology on children plenty of hear hear.

    But when you ask hacker news, if the quadrivalent nasal virus mist engineered to only replicate in colder environments, who, for some reason, de-attenuate when mingling with wild type strains .. and you simply point out there’s no control group because there’s only one planet and viruses are global. The down vote is the common response.

    But regarding this article, will the quadrivalent flu mist vaccine will be trivalent next year?

    • Arnt 33 minutes ago

      .de has announced that only trivalent vaccines are permitted from late 2026. One year's warning is short... so I guess the answer to your question (taken literally) is most likely no.

  • andrewstuart 2 hours ago

    Probable or possible?

    It would seem incredibly hard to wipe out from a layman’s position.

    Even if severely abated it could still come back, no?

    • gus_massa an hour ago

      > It would seem incredibly hard to wipe out from a layman’s position.

      I think it was a very low transmission rate and the lock down, social distance, mask and other measures against covid-19 reduced the transission below 1, so the amount of infected people got to 0. If it's only hosted in humans (I think yes) and does not survive too long outside a person (I think less than 1 day), it's possible that it got wipped out.

      > Even if severely abated it could still come back, no?

      I'm not sure if it was a strange mutation or a combination of a human virus with a virus of other animal. It's possible that the same even ocurs again an we get a very similar new variant. But new dangerous variants appera slow enough to be happy that one of them has gone.

      Almost relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/2306/