Covid-19 vaccine forwarded vaccine science years, Pfizer's CEO said, and now it's time to use advances for other viral diseases, such as the flu.The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine used a new method with messenger RNA to initiate the immune response. Moderna's vaccine also used mRNA.
Pfizer developed its Covid-19 vaccine, which is 95% effective in combatting the virus, with BioNTech, whose cofounder Ugur Sahin designed the vaccine Pfizer's vaccine works by injecting a small piece of coronavirus mRNA into the body that codes for the virus' spike protein. That protein is what helps the virus attach to and invade cells, and it's what antibodies target. So the vaccine spurs the body to produce the spike protein internally in order to trigger that same immune response.
Burla also said the company would pursue new avenues for its pipeline within the year. He noted the flu vaccine as one such avenue, along with other viral diseases.
mRNA is experimental gene therapy... beware...
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