Thanks, Professor, for explaining how traditional vaccines work. But this vaccine is not "teaching" your body to recognize a natural pathogen via a very small sample of that pathogen.
This is from the CDC:
"To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies.Not mRNA vaccines. Instead, they teach our cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies."
The end result in either scenario is fundamentally the same.
A lot of our vaccines don't contain a live or dead virus, but instead use antigens (proteins) from that virus that produce a strong immune response. The result is that when we encounter the virus itself in the wild, our immune system recognizes those proteins and mounts a response. The theory behind mRNA vaccines is very similar. Whether it's safe or effective is a different question altogether.
Are you a Phoenix professor? Your reading comprehension is sub-par.
The new vaccine is not a small sample of the virus.
It prompts your cells to make a piece of what is called “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. Your body then kills that.
Don't care how it kills a particular virus. Still the same principle. Your body only ever samples small samples of viruses, not the whole thing. The CTLs kill what they're told to kill. You are making a distinction without a difference here.
Pray tell how it "prompts your cells to make a piece of..." is any different from what I've said.
Thanks, Professor, for explaining how traditional vaccines work. But this vaccine is not "teaching" your body to recognize a natural pathogen via a very small sample of that pathogen.
This is from the CDC:
"To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies.Not mRNA vaccines. Instead, they teach our cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies."
The end result in either scenario is fundamentally the same.
A lot of our vaccines don't contain a live or dead virus, but instead use antigens (proteins) from that virus that produce a strong immune response. The result is that when we encounter the virus itself in the wild, our immune system recognizes those proteins and mounts a response. The theory behind mRNA vaccines is very similar. Whether it's safe or effective is a different question altogether.
THEY ARE ALWAYS SMALL SAMPLES, ALL THE WAY BACK TO PASTEUR. SO YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN EASILY KILL IT AND THERE'S NOT SO MUCH IT COIULD KILL YOU.
All I have left is a puppet show. Should I get the puppets?
Are you a Phoenix professor? Your reading comprehension is sub-par.
The new vaccine is not a small sample of the virus.
It prompts your cells to make a piece of what is called “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. Your body then kills that.
Don't care how it kills a particular virus. Still the same principle. Your body only ever samples small samples of viruses, not the whole thing. The CTLs kill what they're told to kill. You are making a distinction without a difference here. Pray tell how it "prompts your cells to make a piece of..." is any different from what I've said.