07-26-2021, 09:44 AM
(07-26-2021, 08:46 AM)AussieBengal Wrote: My lay understanding of vaccines is the active agent is only in the body for a short period of time as all it is doing is triggering an immune response and the immune system does all the heavy lifting of the vaccine. Due to this vaccines are unlikely to have to have long term effects compared to other types of medication the doses are repeated as it is the medication itself that is having any effect on the disease.
Correct.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/vaccines/COVID-19-mRNA-infographic_G_508.pdf