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SPEAKER: How does a COVID-19
Work with mRNA vaccine?
COVID vaccines are now
available.
Some of the COVID-19 vaccines
are mRNA vaccines, but what does that mean?
This average?
mRNA vaccines are
different than traditional
Vaccinations.
You do not expose to mRNA vaccines
to every real virus instead,
they are made with Messenger
Ribonucleic acid or mRNA.
This is a type of molecule that
gives instructions to the cell
how to do different ways
of proteins.
mRNA molecules are
a natural part of our cells
and how our body works.
Researchers have worked
with mRNA vaccines
for many years.
You are made easier
and safe in the laboratory
as a vaccine that used
a virus.
Because of this, they can too
be made faster.
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
passed many tests in laboratories
and with thousands of people
and meet strict standards
from the FDA.
How do these vaccines work?
First, a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine
is injected into a muscle
in your upper arm.
Some muscle cells take the mRNA
Instructions in the vaccine
and make a harmless piece
of a protein called
a spike protein.
This protein is found
on the outside of the SARS-CoV-2
Virus that causes COVID-19.
The muscle cells then destroy
the instructions for making
the spike protein.
The mRNA never works
in the core of your cells
where your DNA is stored.
The newly made spike protein now
sits on the surface
of the muscle cells.
Your immune system senses it
the spike protein
to destroy as a foreign threat,
it begins to form antibodies
fight against everything
with that spike protein on it.
This will help your body
Immune system recognizes
and fight the real virus when it
always shows up.
It’s like recognizing someone
by the hat they wear.
Your body is then
ready to detect COVID-19
and fend it off before it grows
in the cells of your body.
Quick to remember facts
about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
They help get your body
ready to fend off the COVID-19
Virus before it makes you sick
they don’t use
all live, dead or weak viruses,
they can’t give you COVID-19,
They don’t affect your DNA.
Would you like to know more?
Go to cdc.gov to find more
Information on mRNA vaccines.
You can also learn more about
how the vaccines were approved
at fda.gov.
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Thank You For Reading!
Reference: www.webmd.com
