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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The mRNA vaccines are likely among the safest possible vaccines and even though there's not long-term testing (nor will such necessarily be generally applicable even when we have relatively long term experience with the coronavirus mRNA vaccines), it's hard to come up with a theory on how they could do harm which is in contrast to traditional vaccines and other techniques. mRNA, unlike other forms of RNA, does not get incorporated into the human genome and its existence within the body is transitory. It is soon destroyed by the body. It is emphatically NOT a gene editing technology.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
Finally, you are also incorrect in saying that this technology is "brand new". In fact, there has been a lot of research with it and numerous prototype vaccines previously created. As the CDC put it:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ines/mrna.html
This idea that mRNA vaccine technology is entirely new and untried is a media fiction you have bought hook, line and sinker. You don't even know how it works.
For a MUCH more thorough discussion of the research and past vaccines, see https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243 |
Maybe we are confused about the use of the word “essentially”. It tricks the body into producing antibodies by the introduction of genetic code. If it was not temporary and was incorporated permanently into the patient’s genome, then it wouldn’t have been “essentially” anything, it would be actual gene editing technology like Luxturna.
There has never been an approved mRNA vaccine. There have not even been large scale phase 3 studies of a previous mRNA vaccine, just earlier stage research. It is a new technology.