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The idea that a “nasal vaccine” would help stop nasal infections is so laughable. However you deliver the vaccine, it’s an antibody generator. That’s part of the adaptive immune system, not the innate system that the nasal mucus membrane is part of. The antibody response kicks in long after nasal exposure, when the virus has proceeded on past the mucus membrane and begun multiplying in cells all over the body.



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