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I don't jump on all the conspiracy theories easily, but the mRNA stuff does sound pretty big and sketchy. Have any other vaccines used this "new technology" to date?

I don't jump on all the conspiracy theories easily, but the mRNA stuff does sound pretty big and sketchy. Have *any* other vaccines used this "new technology" to date?

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"i.e. just like the seasonal flu, which itself is a type of corona-virus"

Wrong. Influenza is its own class of virus. Rhinovirus (the common cold), on the other hand, is a coronavirus.

Both influenza and coronaviruses have a single strand of RNA as their genome, but that is where the genomic similarity ends. The influenza virus genome comprises 7 or 8 segments, while the coronavirus has one long strand. Influenza virus RNA is what is known as ‘negative sense RNA’. This means that its sequence is the mirror image of the correct code for proteins and a complementary strand must be made from it before production of new viruses within a host cell can proceed. In contrast, the coronavirus genome is ‘positive sense’ which means it can act as messenger RNA and code for proteins.

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Thanks for the correction, had heard it was one or the other but didn't remember it was the common cold and not the flu which was a coronavirus.