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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40537048
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.
What an insane thing to say.
Well that sort of is what a vaccine is…
No, no it isn’t. If you aren’t just being a snarky bastard and want the difference explained, ask.
Ok, I get it, wrong place for a joke, though the general concept of a vaccine is to infect you with a weak/dead version of the agent causing the infection causing the body to learn how to fight the real thing.
mRNA vaccines do differ in that they send in building blocks for the body to produce the weak strain itself.