Most vaccines contain an infectious pathogen or a part of it, but mRNA vaccines deliver the genetic instructions for our cells to make viral or bacterial proteins themselves. Our immune system responds to these and builds up immunity.
Both mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have developed cannot cause COVID-19. They do not carry the full information for our cells to make the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and therefore, cannot cause an infection.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-do-mrna-vaccines-work
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
Coronavirus Cases:
80.287 million
Deaths:
1.759 million
Recovered:
56.559 million
Please take a look at the following link.
https://theconversation.com/how-mrna-vaccines-from-pfizer-and-moderna-work-why-theyre-a-breakthrough-and-why-they-need-to-be-kept-so-cold-150238
Please take a look at the following link.
https://theconversation.com/how-mrna-vaccines-from-pfizer-and-moderna-work-why-theyre-a-breakthrough-and-why-they-need-to-be-kept-so-cold-150238
after EUA, and widespread use in the USA and UK- more data will emerge on real-time efficacy and prolonged safety.
There is a lot of content available on mRNA vaccines and how the function. I am sharing few links please check
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3597572/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html
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