Quantum mechanics explains the orbitals of an atom's electrons, and also the molecular orbitals of covalent bonds between atoms. Orbitals are also important for the van-der-Waals forces, hydrogen bonds, and interactions with the molecular orbitals of surrounding water molecules, which direct protein shape.

In the end, all chemistry is applied quantum mechanics, and protein folding is chemistry.

You see that's the thing, the Deltoid is the shoulder muscle. You definitely want the injection into the shoulder, because that is where the Deltoid muscle is. Just, into the muscle, not anywhere else like the joint capsule or whatever.

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I don't doubt that nurses could do it, but here in Germany vaccinations are administered by doctors, even during the pandemic. Never got one by anyone else

The 18 quadrillion is to get out to 1600 light years, as opposed to 100 light years as /u/mfb- is talking about.

Sorry, I shouldn't have implied there was no interesting science to be done with entangled particles and black holes, I meant to just say there is no way of using entangled particles to get information out of the event horizon of a black hole

> Our knowledge of medicine significantly alters our fitness odds, and allows many genes to reproduce that may not have otherwise survived.

Knowledge of medicine can’t be credited for that. That was largely due to human knowledge of farming/agriculture, as well as human empathy to care for the weak. Humans not surviving long enough to reproduce was historically caused more by a lack of food than anything else. If you had a dead weight (disabled) human in your group and not enough food to go around, guess who isn’t going to get fed?

If we were bacteria, yeah, sure. But we are extremely complicated multicellular organisms. A whole genome trisomy screws up the balance of gene expression to such an extreme that most trisomies are simply lethal and never observed (they end up in miscarriage).

A gene fusion is a less drastic event, where 2 chromosomes happen to be connected, but the genetic load is identical.

Yeah. I combined "Alpha Centauri" and "Proxima Centauri" in my mind somehow.

Which is why we make people sit down and landmark correctly. Up to 2ml in the deltoid. Find the acromion process and palpate the deltoid. Use the z-track method of injection.

Why IM instead of IV?

So basically their story is crap is what you're saying?

So are people with down syndrome a form of speciation?

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Fascinating, thank you.

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There's overlap between medications and some medications can be given either way. However IM is going to be a slower release over time versus being immediately introduced all at once into the bloodstream. I know the form of medication or the substance it comes in plays a role too, some play better with different tissue types (some meds we give into the fat tissue as well depending on absorption). There's also the issue of bleeding risk which would be higher trying to give something IV when it's safer in a clinic setting to just give it IM. But as far as I'm aware the biggest factor is the more controlled release time

It’s not enough to have one or few viable offspring though. Also they have no good way to find each other, so they need to be able to reproduce with the other chromosome count until they reach a critical number

Okay, hear me out.

One of the ways we define whether or not species are different is if they can reproduce together, and if the offspring are also able to reproduce. This is why horses and donkeys are still different species even though they can have babies, ie mules, because mules are sterile.

What if these 44 chromosome people grew in number and could have kids together (non-incestuously, I don't know if there are multiple families with this condition)? And then those kids could have kids, and so on.

Would this be the origin of a new species of human?

It's fun to think about and consider.

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I can't speak to how it would affect the vaccine and the body's response to it, but I can say that giving a vaccine Intravenously is impractical and potentially dangerous at scale. I work in an ER and it can easily take 20+ minutes to start an IV on a patient, especially if they're very young or very old. That's compared to administering Intramuscularly which will take 2 or 3 minutes at most. From what research we've done on vaccines, doing it intramuscularly is perfectly fine so there's just no reason to change that. There's also a greater risk of sepsis going from IM to IV since you're opening a path directly into your bloodstream instead of just near it (again I can't speak to whether or not the vaccine itself would cause issues, but I can't imagine it would help).

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