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		a_c_s on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Government official: Coronavirus vaccine tria... Many vaccines only use parts of the virus (such as proteins from the exterior of the virus). These vaccines can't cause infection because only certain parts of the virus are included, not whole viruses.

andrewla on March 16, 2020 [–]

I was not aware of that -- I thought that all vaccines used some live/dead/weakened/attenuated viral load.

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