Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles
Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles
Vaccinations could be made less painful by treating skin with a vaccine-laden liquid and using ultrasound to push it into the body
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.
History proves we do the cheapest, easiest, and fastest. So allow me to shit all over this idea...
- This is slow at 1.5 mins vs a needle takes about 5 secs.
- Takes skill to operate an ultrasound machine and probably training to get a consistent dose vs pull needle to this line and jab in arm to know you got it all in there.
- Every Rite Aid and CVS would need an ultrasound machine vs here are these cheap disposable needles that require no power or maintenance.
Sure they might develop it faster or make a new more portable thing. But that's going to take a long long time when no one gives a shit to invest money in a new thing when needles work.
Sitting for a minute and a half, not including prep and cleanup, or just getting stabbed a little. shrug
Edit: To save the next half dozen people exclaiming "needles!" the trouble. I would refine my point to, "great to have the option but I imagine it as being more of a fallback than the beginning of a new era".
If they can do this for insulin which sounds like it's the same this is a game changer
I guess it's interesting but this seems to have minimal use case. For those with reactions to injections and such it's useful, but it seems much easier to use a needle in most cases. Also that article claims that it "doesn't damage the skin", but I don't see why a vaccine would cause any meaningful damage to the skin in the first place.
Edit: Okay I'm seeing now how this would be useful for more frequent injections like insulin and such if it can be used like that.
I had a friend who would have severe reactions to injections. He wasn't afraid of needles, but his body would have weird reactions lasting about a week after having an injection. It was really problematic, so he tried to avoid them whenever possible. All this to say, I bet he'd be excited if something like this were made available to him.
Notwithstanding but I read about this, or something similar to this years ago, I want to say something seven or eight, and we're still in the same phase with this tech.
Not going to be holding my breath on this one.
I can't wait to hear the crazy conspiracies about this one.
Gaap! Now they can give you Bill Gates chips and 5G cancer wirelessly!
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Can we give children vaccines in a way that the only prevention would be to wear a mask???
This would... Possibly work...
It's really good that the media really managed to communicate to people that antivaxers are the enemy of everyone now.
When I think of an antivaxer, I imagine it's some creature that we don't normally see, because they are so ugly, stupid and insane that they wouldn't be able to function in society without a lot of help getting their pants on in the morning.
I mean, imagine going against the specific advice of all those experts and NOT taking the vaccine?? That's like putting a gun to the head of grandma who just wants to live her last few days in happiness, and then that stupid antivaxer just kills her! So evil.
I'm thankful we live in a society where we now can be confident what is true, because it's very clearly being communicated to all of us, all the time. Who can miss that?? It's like everywhere! Stupid antivaxers, hope they all die off like the poison on society they all are.