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Thanks! If you don't mind, when you say: > ...may miss out on antibodies for other viral proteins... Do you mean to say that a more traditional one which uses

Thanks! If you don't mind, when you say: > ...may miss out on antibodies for other viral proteins... Do you mean to say that a more traditional one which uses the deactivated virus can help find proteins related to the virus but not specifically targeted, or do you mean that a traditional one could target other proteins that could apply to _other_ viruses?

roughly 6y ago
Not the OP, but - if I'm reading this right, the mRNA vaccine contains the code for one specific (or a small subset of) viral protein, which is what the immune system is induced to target. In a traditional vaccine, the immune system is exposed to the entire viral protein coat, and therefore may learn to target multiple different proteins from the same virus, not just the spike protein. I suspect OP's suggestion is that it's possible providing the entire virus may provide additional or more robust immunities against the same virus that we don't get from the more targetted mRNA vaccine. I'd be getting very outside my lane to speculate on whether inducing immunity against multiple proteins would potentially apply to other viruses also carrying those same proteins - I don't know how specific or how contextual the immune system's response is in this case.