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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      Brace yourselves! Vaccination with sound conspiracies coming in!

      “The IRS called, they vaccinated me trough my phone in my ear!!?”

      “Mass vaccinations trough radio!!?”

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      1 year ago

      Idk, anti vaxxers aren’t afraid of needles/syringes as far as I understand. They don’t want that kind of substance to be put inside their body, regardless of the method of administration

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        I mean, yes, but a lot of them also think it’s a conspiracy where world leaders are trying to vaccinate everyone because ??? Those types will start avoiding ultrasound to not get tricked into getting vaccinated.

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          The best part is “depopulation by helping people stay healthy” e.g. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.