A vaccine is 94% effective. What, exactly does that mean?

A vaccine is 94% effective. What, exactly does that mean?
If Quarks are Color Confined and likely stable, how can a proton decay? Am I missing something important?
At what age will kids be treated differently in terms of getting the vaccine? Somewhere between adult and newborn should be a “too young for the vaccine” in the first year, but what age is that?
Epidemiologist, What is the impact of covid 19 on people with tuberculosis especially those with latent TB? like could it cause the diseases to become active or not.
Could you sequence the dna of cancer cells and then compare it to the persons healthy cells to locate the genetic mutation and then edit the dna of the cancer cells causing new cells to just be normal again?
What are the Cellular effects of Spike Proteins binding to the ACE2 receptor?
Do we have any info/data on the types of medical conditions that may preclude someone from being able to take any or all of the COVID-19 vaccines currently on the horizon?
What will happen to the frequency and wavelength of the sound wave if we directly change the speed of sound? How will they change?
Is there any fear among the scientific community that SARs-CoV-2 might mutate into different strains that are either harder to vaccinate against or are more deadly/communicable?
¿How can the CMB be sphere-shaped?
Are there ways to estimate how many people have coronavirus in a population, given its testing numbers and positive rate?
Why is it that the circumference of a circle is the derivative of its area and the surface area of a sphere is the derivative of its volume?
If there’s a limited number of vaccines immediately available, why not test groups set to receive the first doses for antibodies and first vaccinate those without antibodies?
Why isn't Batrachotoxin an Antitoxin to Tetrodotoxin?
Why isn’t there DNA in hair except at the roots?
If the COVID vaccine teaches our immune system to attack COVID’s spike protein that binds to ACE2, won’t the immune system also attack angiotensin II which was originally meant to bind to ACE2?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 09:23 PM PST

Does that mean a vaccinated person, exposed 100 times, will be fine 94 times? Or does that mean the severity of the resulting disease is reduced by 94%? or does that mean that 94% of subjects are 100% immune for this disease for a period of time?

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If Quarks are Color Confined and likely stable, how can a proton decay? Am I missing something important?

Posted: 10 Dec 2020 03:48 AM PST

So grand unified theories predict proton decay, but how exactly? Aren't the Quarks color confined and stable? Plus, protons are the lightest baryon... I feel I'm missing something important

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At what age will kids be treated differently in terms of getting the vaccine? Somewhere between adult and newborn should be a “too young for the vaccine” in the first year, but what age is that?

Posted: 10 Dec 2020 01:50 AM PST

I read that it might be 16 years and older. In later years maybe we can assume younger ages as more data is available but in the first year what is likely?

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Epidemiologist, What is the impact of covid 19 on people with tuberculosis especially those with latent TB? like could it cause the diseases to become active or not.

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 08:36 PM PST

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Could you sequence the dna of cancer cells and then compare it to the persons healthy cells to locate the genetic mutation and then edit the dna of the cancer cells causing new cells to just be normal again?

Posted: 10 Dec 2020 12:51 AM PST

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What are the Cellular effects of Spike Proteins binding to the ACE2 receptor?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 08:07 PM PST

With all the news regarding the new mRNA vaccines for covid floating around it has left me with a few questions I can't seem to find answers to online based on my search terms.

Can the Spike Proteins created by the mRNA activate the ACE2 receptor? If it can activate the receptor, what impact would this activation have and how long would the protein stay bound to the receptor?
Can mRNA degrade or become damaged and still be translated by the ribosomes? If damaged mRNA can be transcribed, would this allow for the possibility of an incorrect protein being created?

Disclaimer: Not Anti-vax, Just curious

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Do we have any info/data on the types of medical conditions that may preclude someone from being able to take any or all of the COVID-19 vaccines currently on the horizon?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 10:36 AM PST

I know that some people with certain medical conditions ultimately rely on herd immunity vs physically getting vaccines, due to increased risk of medical complications. Do the upcoming vaccines pose that same risk to certain patients?

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What will happen to the frequency and wavelength of the sound wave if we directly change the speed of sound? How will they change?

Posted: 10 Dec 2020 01:01 AM PST

Since v= λ f and we know that f and λ are inversely proportional so changing one of them would not change the velocity but decrease the other. So if we directly change the velocity how will they change?

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Is there any fear among the scientific community that SARs-CoV-2 might mutate into different strains that are either harder to vaccinate against or are more deadly/communicable?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 11:59 PM PST

I had this thought while looking at a world map of infections today and musing on how similar it looked to the "pandemic" game some of you may have played, where the best strategy is often to infect as many people as possible with your virus before mutating and rapidly wiping out humanity.

I don't expect this to happen, but it did raise the question for me above. I found this article from August of this year that provided good information, but I was wondering if there was any other research you guys are aware of, if this is an active topic of discussion, or if it's mostly a non-concern at this point.

Thank you.

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¿How can the CMB be sphere-shaped?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 10:07 PM PST

I know the popular image of the CMB is a Mollweide protection from a sphere... But what does the sphere shape mean? Isn't this radiation supposed to come from everywhere? This implies that there is some kind of "center" or origin? If this is not the case, then why does it form a sphere? Or maybe I am simply misinterpreting the information and there is no sphere at all.

Thanks! Sorry if this question sounds dumb but I'm really curious to understand why the CMB is represented like that. Have a good day and stay safe.

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Are there ways to estimate how many people have coronavirus in a population, given its testing numbers and positive rate?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 01:32 PM PST

Is there something like an equation I can plug and chug numbers into, where for X population size, Y testing rate, Z positive rate, there are probably W undiagnosed covid patients in the population?

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Why is it that the circumference of a circle is the derivative of its area and the surface area of a sphere is the derivative of its volume?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 01:21 PM PST

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If there’s a limited number of vaccines immediately available, why not test groups set to receive the first doses for antibodies and first vaccinate those without antibodies?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 10:33 AM PST

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Why isn't Batrachotoxin an Antitoxin to Tetrodotoxin?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 11:14 AM PST

So, I've heard, that Tetrodotoxin and Batrachotoxin have contrary effects on the body, so therefore Tetrodotoxin is used as an Antitoxin for Batrachotoxin, however I've looked up Antitoxins for Tetrodotoxin and there is none, so why isn't it possible for this to work the other way around, or if it does, why isn't it done?

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Why isn’t there DNA in hair except at the roots?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 04:52 AM PST

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If the COVID vaccine teaches our immune system to attack COVID’s spike protein that binds to ACE2, won’t the immune system also attack angiotensin II which was originally meant to bind to ACE2?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 09:52 AM PST

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