Time to start reading up on this topic kiddies. This might just be the new age hope for vaccines. While not ready for prime time, a major concern would be the "warp speed" mentality and good old fashioned fear-porning about 'we will never go home again' until we have a vaccine. In a nutshell; cut every corner possible to create the greatest Hopium ever for the masses, albeit mostly dumb masses, as fast as possible. Either way, this is the new trend and it's moving right along.
The idea is novel and does not use the traditional approach of infecting you with a real, but diluted, live virus for your body to counteract. Instead, it's like loading a blueprint directly to your cell to make and replicate it's own response. Read the article, it'll make more sense and it's not overly techy-speaky.
Pro Tip: While reading it, just keep one question going in the back of your gourd: What could possibly go wrong?
mRNA vaccines, a primer: How they work, why they’re “cleaner” than traditional vaccines, and why they might prove catastrophic in a rushed coronavirus response
mRNA vaccines — also called “genetic vaccines” — arise from an innovative biotechnology approach that turns the body’s cells into molecular factories to produce proteins that activate a pathogen-specific immune response. The technology holds great promise but also presents significant risks which are not yet fully known.
Summary of what’s in this article:
– mRNA vaccines promise an intriguing new platform for immunization that does not rely on the growth or harvesting of pathogens from animal tissue. This offers mRNA vaccines several key advantages over traditional vaccines.
– Research into mRNA vaccines is still in its infancy, even though various biotech pioneers have been working on ways to achieve mRNA vaccines for around two decades. It is very likely that yet more decades of research will be required to achieve acceptable levels of safety and efficacy.
– mRNA vaccines can be produced far more rapidly, safely and uniformly than traditional vaccines. Production can be easily scaled up, and there is zero risk of introducing “live” pathogens into the body of the patient, since these vaccines don’t use weakened pathogens in the first place...