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What is it caused by? It’s not like T cell immunity has whole SARS2 virus to model against, like it does with other vaccines employing whole, inactivated viru
by wrycoder 4y ago
What is it caused by?
It’s not like T cell immunity has whole SARS2 virus to model against, like it does with other vaccines employing whole, inactivated virus.
- jhugo 4y agoThere isn't really a meaningful difference; either way the immune system is responding to a protein and "remembering" it. mRNA breaks down within a few days, by which point spike protein production by your cells has stopped, and the spike proteins themselves break down within a few weeks. Inactivated virus would be broken down and excreted within a similar timeframe or faster; it's the immune system memory of the proteins that it encountered that persists.