The emergency use vaccine is approved for people ages 5 and older.
This article explains what exactly mRNA vaccines are and how they work.
What Are DNA and RNA Vaccines?
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This triggers an immune response and causes your body to make antibodies like it would with a natural infection.
A DNA or RNA vaccine has the same goal as traditional vaccines, but they work slightly differently.
In other words, they carry the genetic instructions for the hosts cells to make antigens.
[Then the body] is ready to fight it once it sees it again.
So this is kind of new.
This means with an RNA or mRNA vaccine, youre one step ahead of a DNA vaccine.
mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19
Vaccines are evaluated for their effectiveness in what are called vaccine effectiveness studies.
No vaccines are 100% effective in preventing disease.
The advantage is that this vaccine is very stable at higher temperatures.
The disadvantage is that it requires a special rig that provides the electrical pulse, she says.
This also makes them cheaper to produce.
But with any health advancement comes potential risk.
Instead, if you inject mRNA, it cannot get integrated into the genetic material of a cell.
It is also ready to be translated into protein.
DNA and RNA vaccines both instruct cells in your body to produce a protein that induces an immune response.
Unlike RNA vaccines, DNA vaccines require an electrical impulse to push the genetic message into the cell.
And while mRNA vaccines cannot affect your genes, this is a potential risk with DNA vaccines.
Unlike traditional vaccines, neither RNA or DNA vaccines contain a live virus.
For this reason they are more cost effective and can be produced more quickly than traditional vaccines.
The messenger RNA never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where your DNA is located.
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