How the mRNA Vaccines Work

This video explains how an mRNA vaccine prompts your cells to make viral proteins, a process that’s similar in some ways to a viral infection but also very different.

Project the video to the whole class, then go through the discussion items below.

• After completing the lesson, the learner will be able to explain that mRNA vaccines trigger natural biological processes to produce specific viral proteins, which then trigger an immune response.

How the mRNA Vaccine Works

How does the mRNA vaccine fit into the processes of transcription and translation that cells carry out?