India approves first DNA Covid vaccine

Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by XorNot on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:32AM (#28256451)

If you've ever cut yourself in a non-sterile environment, then you have been exposed to thousands of times more genetic material and invading pathogens then a vaccine contains, bent on doing much more serious damage.

For some reason people worry about "what vaccines might do" but not "what the virus that invades your cells, co-opts the replication machinery, and then invades more cells uncontrolled" will do. The virus that literally did not exist in nature till 1.5 years ago when it started infecting humans and killing them.

Like it does not only produce more viruses either - that's the goal but it's a stochastic process. You also get filled with bits of viral RNA from sheared up viruses, or ones that run into an enzyme, or from viruses where the cell shuts down or dies early and it blows fragments of viral protein into your blood stream.

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Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by tim333 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:36AM (#28256472)

>the virus invades your cells, splices it's DNA into the replication machinery

I don't think covid has any DNA - it's made of RNA - or does that.

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Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by XorNot on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:43AM (#28256518)

I've tidied up the paragraph, but I was originally split between being COVID specific and the more general point that we're invaded by viruses and bacteria all the time. "Getting exposed to weird DNA/RNA" is the normal human experience from living in the world.

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