Strictly speaking, it's not a vaccine. It's actually more of a synthetic virus. That, in itself, wouldn't make it ineffective or dangerous, but rushing out to biotech and forcing everyone to take it sounds more like an agenda than like public health.
No. BioNTech is not a synthetic virus, it is mRNA, coded to use your genetic material to produce specific proteins to combat vSARS-CoV-2 viral replication.
Whether or not it should be classified as a vaccine is debatable. A purist would say no. Someone more willing to stretch the historical definition of the terms might say yes.
Exactly. The mRNA treatments act like viruses, in that they convince cell nuclei to create new proteins. They don't meet the medical definition of a vaccine. Viruses are pretty much a strip of genetic code in a protein jacket. They enter cells and take over protein production. That's what the new mRNA biotech does, only (hopefully) with more specific intent than continued duplication of the virus.
Strictly speaking, it's not a vaccine. It's actually more of a synthetic virus. That, in itself, wouldn't make it ineffective or dangerous, but rushing out to biotech and forcing everyone to take it sounds more like an agenda than like public health.
No. BioNTech is not a synthetic virus, it is mRNA, coded to use your genetic material to produce specific proteins to combat vSARS-CoV-2 viral replication.
Whether or not it should be classified as a vaccine is debatable. A purist would say no. Someone more willing to stretch the historical definition of the terms might say yes.
Exactly. The mRNA treatments act like viruses, in that they convince cell nuclei to create new proteins. They don't meet the medical definition of a vaccine. Viruses are pretty much a strip of genetic code in a protein jacket. They enter cells and take over protein production. That's what the new mRNA biotech does, only (hopefully) with more specific intent than continued duplication of the virus.
Appreciate the clarification thanks.
Historically, dictionaries largely concur that this is NOT a vaccine: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/vaccine