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Re:BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19 by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:39PM (#29524076)
Vaccines are different from antibiotics in that they are designed to use your own immune system. Whereas an antibiotic targets a bacterial weakness which the bacteria can fix, the immune system watches for both specific invaders and possible variations of those invaders.

Kurzgesagt made a good explainer video on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0

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