What Happens Once You Get An mRNA Vaccine

1/15/21 by FiveThirtyEight, Anna Rothschild

Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/ESP5917378794.mp3

Anna talks with Dr. Margaret Liu, one of the pioneers of gene-based vaccines, about vaccines that use mRNA to help us build immunity to COVID-19, including the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. How is this method different from vaccines in the past, and what does the mRNA do once it gets inside our bodies?