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Corona virus vaccination

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  There is a lot of excitement right now around the record vaccines for covid19,some of which are already distribution in parts of the world,but given that these are mRNA vaccines are relatively new technology that has not been used before I want to explain how they work and what happens to your body from the moment that needle touches your skin. Like vaccines,we are used to seeing these vaccines will be injected into the upper mussel of your arm but unlike typical vaccines which introduce inactive or weakened form of a virus,these will release genetic material called messenger RNA. So what exactly does this mRNA do? Well in a regular cell in your body you have DNA inside of the nucleus and this DNA stores all the information and instructions important to the functioning of your cell your body and ultimately makes you you. Inside your cell is machinery that reads through your DNA and transcribed it into mRNA which then leaves the nucleus and goes into your cytoplasm and its here th...