As concerns grow about the rushed development of a vaccine to treat COVID19 a back and forth debate has ensued as to whether such a vaccine could dangerously alter human DNA. Herein we examine the basics.
There is no secret about it: the proposed COVID19 RNA vaccine (or mRNA vaccine) is a new type of vaccine supposed to offer acquired immunity through lipid nanoparticles.
As we face six tough months of curfews, isolation and economic misery, with vaccines a distant hope, testing struggling to control the virus, and the hospitalisation rate once again rising, it’s surely time to try anything reasonable to slow the pandemic down.