Dec 23, 2020 17:00:00

What happens when you get the new coronavirus vaccine?

The new coronavirus vaccine was

approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in December 2020, and vaccination has begun in various places, but there are concerns about vaccination with new drugs. Therefore, STAT, a news media on medicines and health, explains the reaction that occurs when inoculating the new coronavirus vaccine.

What to expect when you're injected: Vaccine side effects explained --STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/22/what-to-expect-when-youre-injected-vaccine-side-effects-explained/

A general vaccine obtains immunity to a virus by injecting a virus or bacterium with weakened pathogenicity into the body and artificially reproducing the state of being infected with the virus. In contrast, the new coronavirus vaccine injects mRNA that has information on synthesizing proteins on the surface of the new coronavirus, not the new coronavirus itself. After that, in the body, the same protein as the surface of the new coronavirus is synthesized based on the information of mRNA, and an antibody is made in a form that opposes the protein, so that immunity to the new coronavirus can be obtained.

According to STAT, there is a widespread misconception that 'vaccination will bring the new coronavirus into the body.' However, as mentioned above, the new coronavirus vaccine injects mRNA, so the vaccine cannot infect the new coronavirus.

In addition, when vaccinated with the new coronavirus vaccine, fever may occur due to an immune reaction to the synthesized protein, but this is a normal reaction that occurs by the same mechanism as the reaction such as 'scraping the knee causes fever in the affected area'. Yes, there is no need to worry about anything.

The appearance of mild side effects such as fever after vaccination indicates that the vaccine is working. STAT concludes, 'It is important to have the correct knowledge about vaccines.'