How vaccines

work
From: Lauren Whang, Leilani Chavarria, and Finley
Carver

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Definition and History
To understand how vaccines work one must know what a vaccine is. Vaccines
are a weakened or dead version of a virus. It first was established in 1796 by
Edward Jenner. He experimented a theory of curing the smallpox on a boy.
Edward Jenner took the cowpox dieses and injected it to the boy. While the boy
was sick with cowpox, he injected the smallpox dieses to see what will happen.
When Edward Jenner discovered that his theory worked. Soon after, all were
injected with the cowpox and the smallpox to be free from both illnesses. With
this procedure, Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine instead of variolation
which uses the actual smallpox virus to try to protect people. Vaccination is far
less dangerous than variolation. The Medical Establishment deliberated about
Jenner’s invention. However, eventually, vaccination was accepted and
variolation was prohibit in England. From then on, we are safe from the
smallpox virus because of Edward Jenner’s ingenious invention, the vaccines.
 How vaccines
work?
When a germ enters the body, our body’s white
blood cell targets the virus with antibodies. The
procedure usually takes about a week.
However, after the viruses are targeted with
antibodies, the body makes memory cells, so
when the same virus enters the body, the
memory cells will recognize it and destroy it
within a day or so. This may happen so fast
that one may not even feel the symptoms.
However, the body can not beat the viruses if
there are not memory cells for that virus,
unless you intentionally get sick to create the
memory cells of that virus which is called
variolation. Variolation is far too dangerous to
Vaccine Trials
• About 213 vaccines are in Development for treating Covid-19
• Only 36 are in clinical testing
• The leading candidates in the Vaccine Race are; University of Oxford,
Astra Zeneca, Sinovac, and Instito Butantan. All of which are in the
third clinical phase of testing.
• Most of the vaccines are RNA-Based
(This information was last recorded on October 14, 2020)
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