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Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid mixture to the skin of mice and exposed it to ultrasound – like that used for sonograms – for about a minute and a half.

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[–] pauljacobson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm diabetic. This would be awesome!!

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will anyone actually do this, if it takes 1-1.5 minutes and needs a heavy machine?

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

People who don't like needles? Or do you mean institutions?

[–] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were already terrified of phone signals.

Only fast ones though. Slower ones can't penetrate the skin.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilariously enough, it's closer to the other way 'round. Higher frequencies means more bandwidth but they can be blocked easier. Lower frequencies can go farther before being attenuated too much.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of my friend's friends has a PhD in psychology, but she thinks that nuclear radiation has healing properties and told me to move out of NYC because there was too much 5G everywhere. She still uses a smartphone though, just on a selfie stick on speakerphone 🤣 She also told me that she was afraid of the radio in her car because of the radio waves.

[–] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She could at least use wired headphones. Or is it one simple trick to stop people from calling you?

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

She's just a bit out there, there is no logic in her actions.

[–] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She thinks that nuclear radiation has healing properties

In a way she’s actually not wrong. That’s what radiotherapy is. Focused nuclear radiation to heal cancer.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She doesn't have cancer though, she's perfectly healthy and is an "alternative medicine practitioner". She said she sleeps with a piece of thorium under her pillow.

Regardless of it being used for cancer treatment, nuclear radiation isn't good for the body in any way. Various forms of radiation (not just nuclear) are harmful, like getting too much sun.

[–] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

she sleeps with a piece of thorium under her pillow.

Yikes!

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm convinced that she's just nuts. My friend, who is her friend (how I met this woman), told me that the woman has started "Urine Therapy" and I just said "Jesus fucking Christ... I... I just have nothing to say" because I didn't wanna get into a debate with him about it.

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BREAKING NEWS: Republicans leave prenatal care industry in shambles

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Preaching to the choir, yes, but you’re fine lol

Honestly just wasn’t thinking when I posted that. Head empty

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

does this work for real drugs striaght into the brainstem????

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Antivaxxers now pro-abortion to avoid forced ultrasound vaccinations.

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As interesting as that would be to happen, in reality, there's just going to be a bunch more people going without pre natal care.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is going to be most red states in the next decade. Great time to be in the little coffin business though.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Until they run out of land that’s not private property. I think they’ll use mass graves first, then just to bury the bones and teeth that don’t burn.

I fervently wish I’d skipped this thread.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man a little vaccine needle is the least painful shot, i didn't even feel the last 5 i got until the next day

[–] Maeve@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Intramuscular always caused me soreness, except maybe once. I don’t know what that nurse did differently, I felt the needle sink in, and it hurt; but there was near-zero residual soreness.

[–] QuodamoresDei@midwest.social -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We do realize that force vaccination is a human right violation, right?

Especially, when the product is not actually "safe nor effective."

It's comparable yet worse than force feeding animal meat to a vegan.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should really educate yourself before making yourself look like a fool in a comment.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago

The principles of bodily autonomy support the moron, unfortunately. Forcing something into the body of another against their will is generally considered a deplorable act, and makes the forcer criminally liable for any harm that arises.

I'm certainly not anti-vax, but I can't find a philosophically sound justification for forcibly vaccinating an individual.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don’t update your computer security, you might be email out viruses to your contacts without even knowing. Is it their responsibility not to get infected or is the responsibility ultimately on you to stay updated?

[–] QuodamoresDei@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terrible analogy. Human lives and computer systems are not really comparable. Pretty sure the responsibility of keeping each computer free of virus falls on the users of those terminals or the IT department managing it.

Has a security update ever done more harm than the virus that it's trying to stop?

Check r/vaccinelonghaulers in reddit for more information.

COVID has a very high survival rate without intervention. Early treatment with a few drugs proved to be more efficacious on saving lives. Intubation and Remdesevir killed more people than it helped.

And, at least in the US, many of us who are against the mRNA gene therapies will literally as in actually fight to the death those Nazis who are into force injecting things into people.

I will; however, continue to pray for all those who received doses that they don't succumb to cardiac myopathies, blood clots, or strokes.

So many people that had the shots are struggling with perpetual pneumonias. It's sad.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got a source? I didn’t think so.

[–] QuodamoresDei@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago

For which part?

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing no one is being forced then and that the vaccines are safe and effective