Some seem so very upset because two marines received exemptions.
Raging over this.......
Coffee time! Take a chill!
The "upset" is in reaction to the tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in reaction to extremist campaigns promoting deliberate
ignorance and mendacious sabotage of well meaning people's better judgment. Why do these saboteurs want to drive MDs, RNs, respiratory
therapists, literally to their knees, to early graves, or out of the professions they used to be so committed to before having to care for the dying duped and the antivax extremists?
As more people apply for religious exemptions to vaccine mandates, experts explain how and why fetal cells are used in drug development, from vaccines to common pain medications.
www.nationalgeographic.com
BYPRIYANKA RUNWAL
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 19, 2021
"...And one common reason people give for religious exemptions is the link between vaccines and human fetal cells.
It’s true that such cells have been used either in the testing or development and production of COVID-19 vaccines.
The cells are grown in a laboratory and were derived from a few elective abortions performed more than three decades ago. These same cell lines are also used to test and advance our understanding of several routine drugs, including
acetaminophen,
ibuprofen, and
aspirin, and they continue to be used for treatment research in diseases such as
Alzheimer’s and
hypertension.
“So many people don’t realize how important fetal cell lines are to develop life-saving medicines and vaccines that they rely on every day,” says Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“Their use in developing COVID-19 vaccines isn’t anything different or special.”..... But doctors worry that some people’s
objections may stem in part from misunderstandings of the science. Richard Zimmerman, a family medicine specialist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a part-time physician at Pittsburgh’s East Liberty Family Health Care Center, says that some of his patients have voiced scepticism because they believe the COVID-19 vaccines contain cells from aborted fetuses.
This is incorrect.
Here is the history of how fetal cells are used in drug development, where the cells come from, and why it’s been so hard to find alternatives.
...
In the early days, scientists used animal cells. But they later realized that these cells can harbor other undesirable animal viruses, which would then contaminate the vaccine. For instance, an
early version of the polio vaccine administered extensively between 1955 and 1963 was produced using monkey cells. But scientists later found out the cells were contaminated with a monkey virus called SV4The other issue was that some human viruses
didn’t grow as well in non-human animal cells. So scientists turned to human fetal cells to produce vaccine viruses.
“They were known to rarely contain contaminating viruses,” says cell biologist Leonard Hayflick at the University of California, San Francisco. He created the oldest fetal cell strain, known as WI-38, from an elective abortion in Sweden in the early 1960s. Hayflick knew that human fetal cells, unlike adult human cells, were less likely to contain unwanted viruses..."
