Vaccines

Why is there not a vaccine for coronavirus yet?

• Because it’s a new unknown virus

• Vaccines take long time to be tested in humans

• it's dangerous to produce vaccines without investigating it well

• None of the above

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

The vaccine used to prevent coronavirus infections is a ___________ vaccine that makes __________________ from the virus.

• mRNA, DNA

• mRNA, spike protein

• attenuated, proteins

• toxoid, toxins

Vaccines that introduce a small piece of the virus to the host are known as

• toxoid vaccines

• subunit vaccines

• inactivated vaccines

• mRNA vaccines

This type of vaccine uses a live virus that has been weakened or altered in some way.

• Toxoid vaccine

• mRNA vaccine

• Attenuated vaccine

• Inactivated vaccine

Sometimes vaccines need boosters to remain effective.

• True

• False

Vaccines give immunity to a disease because...

• your body 'remembers' a pathogen and will produce antibodies rapidly in response to a future infection.

• your body 'forgets' a pathogen and will produce antibodies rapidly in response to a future infection.

• your body 'remembers' a pathogen and will produce antiotics rapidly in response to a future infection.

• your body 'remembers' a pathogen and will produce antibodies slowly in response to a future infection.

Vaccines contain...

• healthy pathogens.

• weak or dead pathogens.

• dangerous pathogens.

• microchips.

After a vaccination a person will produce ...

• antidotes.

• antigens.

• antibiotics.

• antibodies.

Another word for receiving a vaccine is ...

• impunity.

• immune.

• immunity.

• immunization.

A vaccine which makes your body produce extra antibody producing lymphocytes is a ...

• buster.

• boaster.

• booster.

• bowzer.