Science communicator · TED-Ed

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly – Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

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Explains how mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a harmless viral protein that trains the immune system. It also shows how decades of prior research made rapid COVID-19 vaccine development possible.

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