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Re:Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients a... by ahmedtd on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:23PM (#25799739)
> That mRNA gets inside your cells and causes the cells to express a protein that is common to the virus.

That's what a standard vaccine with an attenuated virus does as well.

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Re:Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients a... by konjin on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:32PM (#25799779)
No viruses contain nucleoside-modified RNA or DNA.

If any virus did we would all be dead since they completely circumvent the immune system.

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Re:Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients a... by dragonwriter on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:37PM (#25799804)
No, we wouldn't, because the proteins of the virus are what the immune system responds to, not the genetic material.

And obviously the proteins coded for by such genetic material do stimulate immune response, otherwise mRNA vaccines would have no effect.

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