{"id":125871,"date":"2021-08-05T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-mrna-vaccines-work-simply-explained"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:23:22","slug":"how-mrna-vaccines-work-simply-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-mrna-vaccines-work-simply-explained","title":{"rendered":"How mRNA Vaccines Work \u2014 Simply Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WOvvyqJ-vwo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MRNA vaccines have to potential to end the COVID19 pandemic. How do they work? Are they safe? And how could they\u2019ve been developed so quickly?<\/p>\n<p>The main idea of mRNA vaccines is to trick our bodies to produce part of a virus. This kickstarts our immune response, without getting us sick. All that\u2019s needed is a part of the virus\u2019s DNA or RNA, packaged into mRNA. Cool!<\/p>\n<p>(mRNA is the technology behind the vaccines from Pfizer\/BioNTech, Moderna &amp; CureVac) <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Follow-up video.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"mRNA Vaccines: Questions &amp; Misconceptions\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CfZjK2eIDFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> I answer 10 of your mostly asked questions (and address some misconceptions).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Sources used to make this video:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/savjee.be\/videos\/simply-explained\/mrna-vaccines\/\">https:\/\/savjee.be\/videos\/simply-explained\/mrna-vaccines\/<\/a><br \/> \u261d\ufe0f This page also contains answers for frequently asked questions.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2 Help translate this video into other languages:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-mrna-vaccines-work-simply-explained\">Continue reading \u201cHow mRNA Vaccines Work \u2014 Simply Explained\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRNA vaccines have to potential to end the COVID19 pandemic. How do they work? Are they safe? And how could they\u2019ve been developed so quickly? The main idea of mRNA vaccines is to trick our bodies to produce part of a virus. This kickstarts our immune response, without getting us sick. All that\u2019s needed is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}