Understanding how COVID-19 vaccines work|Essay guru

Posted: January 23rd, 2023

Directions: 

Ways to build immunity have come to the news forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. While vaccines to build immunity are not new concepts, variations in mechanism of action vary based on the target pathogen.

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View Understanding how COVID-19 vaccines work.

After reading your assigned textbook reading for this module and the assigned article, describe what kind of immunity COVID-19 vaccines provide, and how this is different than a flu vaccine.

Be sure to support your positions with APA formatted in-text citations and references from the assigned resource.

SOLUTION

COVID-19 vaccines work by teaching the body’s immune system to recognize and fight the virus that causes COVID-19. There are several types of COVID-19 vaccines, but most of them use a small piece of genetic material called messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct cells in the body to produce a harmless protein that is unique to the virus. Once the immune system recognizes the protein as foreign, it creates antibodies to fight it, and “remembers” how to recognize and fight the virus in the future. The vaccine does not use live virus, so it cannot cause COVID-19.