[AZ, a viral vector shot as is J&J, also is a DNA vaccine.](https://archive.is/AZ4p4)
I thought that J&J was an older, proven, vaccine technology. Then I found this. It's a DNA vaccine using a virus vector to insert DNA into the cells. I guess this makes J&J the first DNA vaccine in wide spread use?
Unlike the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which deliver fat-covered bits of genetic material into your cells, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a “shell of a virus” to carry genetic material into your cells, said Gandhi. The “shell” is an adenovirus, which normally causes colds, but has been modified so that it can no longer replicate and make you sick.
The genetic material in the mRNA vaccines is RNA, whereas the genetic material in the J&J vaccine is DNA, but both encode the information to make the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.
Also, Covid-19 vaccines are not vaccines.
I thought that J&J was an older, proven, vaccine technology. Then I found this. It's a DNA vaccine using a virus vector to insert DNA into the cells. I guess this makes J&J the first DNA vaccine in wide spread use?
>Unlike the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which deliver fat-covered bits of genetic material into your cells, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a “shell of a virus” to carry genetic material into your cells, said Gandhi. The “shell” is an adenovirus, which normally causes colds, but has been modified so that it can no longer replicate and make you sick.
>The genetic material in the mRNA vaccines is RNA, whereas the genetic material in the J&J vaccine is DNA, but both encode the information to make the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.
Also, Covid-19 vaccines are not vaccines.
What is their excuse for all the gene manipulation rather than injecting the spike protein directly?
What is their excuse for all the gene manipulation rather than injecting the spike protein directly?
I can't say what the motivations are for these people without speculation. But let's consider this:
Option 1 (your option): Manufacture a large, complex molecule. Put it in a vaccine. Option 2 (vaccine option): Manufacture a large, complex molecule and then graft that onto a virus. Put all that into a vaccine.
If we assume that manufacturing a spike is about as much work as manufacturing a DNA then it appears to me that option 1 would be cheaper, faster, easier than option 2.
You have a choice, though... RNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna DNA vaccine from J&J or AZ or none of these.
Pick the least bad for you!
I can't say what the motivations are for these people without speculation. But let's consider this:
Option 1 (your option): Manufacture a large, complex molecule. Put it in a vaccine.
Option 2 (vaccine option): Manufacture a large, complex molecule and then graft that onto a virus. Put all that into a vaccine.
If we assume that manufacturing a spike is about as much work as manufacturing a DNA then it appears to me that option 1 would be cheaper, faster, easier than option 2.
You have a choice, though...
RNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna
DNA vaccine from J&J or AZ
or none of these.
Pick the least bad for you!
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