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From the article: > There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. So ... what's in the vaccin
by andrewla 7y ago
From the article:
> There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself.
So ... what's in the vaccine? Is it just saline? Without a viral load I don't think we could call it a vaccine in the traditional sense; if this is some crazy new technology that enables the immune system to process the virus without introducing some viral material, that's neat and all, but deserves some deeper explanation.
- a_c_s 7y agoMany vaccines only use parts of the virus (such as proteins from the exterior of the virus). These vaccines can't cause infection because only certain parts of the virus are included, not whole viruses.
- andrewla 7y agoI was not aware of that -- I thought that all vaccines used some live/dead/weakened/attenuated viral load.