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Understand how different Vaccine technologies work with the immune system to provide protection

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      An image of Corona Virus grabbed from the web.   Below are some of helpful articles that aided me in understanding how different Vaccine technologies work with the immune system to provide protection A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine can help you develop immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without getting ill. But how exactly do the different types of COVID-19 vaccines work? Vaccines prompt an immune response so that your body remembers how to fight a virus in the future. Some vaccines use a whole virus to cause your immune system to respond. Other vaccines use parts of the virus or genetic material that provides instructions for making specific proteins like those in the virus. Many COVID-19 vaccines involve a spikelike structure on the surface of the COVID-19 virus called an S protein. The S protein helps the virus get inside your cells and start an infection. Manufacturers around the world are working on different...