There are a number of panicky Facebook posts, to which I will not link, going around about the "shocking" discovery that mRNA vaccines cross the placental barrier. Which really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but antivaxers gonna antivax. 🧪⚕️🖥️🧬🧵 - ThreadSky

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danielmedic.bsky.social • 16 hours ago

There are a number of panicky Facebook posts, to which I will not link, going around about the "shocking" discovery that mRNA vaccines cross the placental barrier. Which really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but antivaxers gonna antivax. 🧪⚕️🖥️🧬🧵

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michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social•16 hours ago

#BrainWormBobby strikes again...

danielmedic.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Honestly I think he's a symptom as much as a cause. But he's going to amplify these lunatics' voices a whole lot over the next few years, and we'll all suffer as a result. He may be soon responsible for more deaths than anyone else in the Musk administration ... and that will be a terribly high bar.

danielmedic.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Okay, the discovery is real enough. Here's a direct link. Click the "View PDF" button at the top, just above the journal title, to read the full article. Note that this is a pre-print version, meaning there may be some typos and such, but nothing that's likely to change the results.

danielmedic.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The problem is ... well, there's no problem here! Maternal immunity, however acquired, is routinely passed on to fetuses: we're all born with immune systems primed to deal with whatever diseases our mothers have encountered, and that's a *good thing*.

danielmedic.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Of course antivaxers who freak out about any occurrence of the abbreviation "mRNA," like the same people often freak out about the word "pronoun" or the "cis-" and "trans-" prefixes, think this is somehow evil.

danielmedic.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's not. It means *fewer dead kids*. These people would literally rather kill their children than learn anything that contradicts their ideology.

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