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    The COVID-19 virus gets its name from the crown-like spikes on its exterior called spike proteins. mRNA vaccines work by delivering genetic material that instructs the body to produce these spike proteins to trigger an immune response and antibody production. When administered, the mRNA enters muscle cells and uses the genetic instructions to produce the spike protein. This causes the immune system to recognize the protein and develop antibodies as if it were a natural infection, protecting against future contamination without risking illness from COVID-19.

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    The COVID-19 virus gets its name from the crown-like spikes on its exterior called spike proteins. mRNA vaccines work by delivering genetic material that instructs the body to produce these spike proteins to trigger an immune response and antibody production. When administered, the mRNA enters muscle cells and uses the genetic instructions to produce the spike protein. This causes the immune system to recognize the protein and develop antibodies as if it were a natural infection, protecting against future contamination without risking illness from COVID-19.

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    How Do Vaccines Work?: The Virus That Causes COVID-19

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    The COVID-19 virus gets its name from the crown-like spikes on its exterior called spike proteins. mRNA vaccines work by delivering genetic material that instructs the body to produce these spike proteins to trigger an immune response and antibody production. When administered, the mRNA enters muscle cells and uses the genetic instructions to produce the spike protein. This causes the immune system to recognize the protein and develop antibodies as if it were a natural infection, protecting against future contamination without risking illness from COVID-19.

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    VACCINATED
    The virus that causes COVID- 19
    Coronaviruses, such as the one that causes
    COVID-19, get their names from the crown-like
    spikes on their exterior, which are called as
    spike proteins. These spike proteins are ideal
    targets for vaccines.

    What's in the vaccine?


    The vaccine is made of mRNA
    wrapped in a coating that makes
    delivery easy and keeps the body
    from damaging it.

    What is mRNA?
    Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a
    genetic material that instructs
    your body on how to produce
    proteins.

    How do vaccines work?

    1 3
    2 Our bodies have learned how to
    COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations
    protect themselves from
    are administered in the upper
    contamination in the future. Like
    arm. The cells use the mRNA The protein component is
    all vaccinations, the benefit of
    once it has entered the muscle visible on the cell's surface. Our
    mRNA vaccines is that people
    cells to produce the protein immune systems recognize that
    who are vaccinated acquire this
    component. After the protein the protein isn't supposed to be
    protection without ever having to
    piece is made, the cell breaks there and start generating an
    risk the serious consequences of
    down the instructions and antibody response and
    getting COVID-19.
    gets rid of them. producing antibodies, similar to
    what happens in a natural
    COVID-19 infection.

    SOURCES
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/therapy/mrnavaccines/
    https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/what-you-need-know-about-mrna-covid-19-vaccines

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