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How the immune system works 0:30
General vaccine information 0:49
mRNA and COVID-19 1:24
COVID-19 vaccine 3:17
Whenever an invading bug (virus/bacteria/fungus/parasite) gets into our body, our immune system creates antibodies that remember what type of bug made us sick the first time.
Vaccines mimic the process of the body’s immune system without us actually having to get sick in the first place. Vaccines jump start the body’s immune system as sort of a trial run in order to be ready to fight and ultimately kill whatever little bug crawls into the body. Normally this is achieved in 1 of 3 ways:
1. A weakened form of the bug
2. The dead bug
3. A piece of the dead bug (a protein called an antigen)
The COVID-19 vaccine is an mRNA vaccine.
mRNA inside cells leads to the creation of proteins. These specific COVID-19 proteins present on the surface of the cell in the form of spike proteins which allows it to attach human cells leading to infection.
What the COVID 19 vaccine does (specifically the Moderna and Pfizer ones) is it uses a synthetically made, mimicked version of the COVID mRNA blueprint, which, once injected, gets taken up by our cells and allows our body to create our own versions of these spike proteins.
The immune system recognizes these spike proteins as foreign and begins to create antibodies against them. When the real coronavirus enters your body with identical spike proteins, your immune system already knows them to be foreign and wipes out the coronavirus before it can be super harmful
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