Originally Posted by
rickair7777
There's indication that the virus spike protein itself may cause some of the bad effects associated with getting covid.
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/th...le-in-illness/
But the vaccines utilize a different protein that mimics part of the spike, without actually being the spike. There was never any assumption that the spike was harmless... because it can break and enter into your cells!
Adverse reactions are more likely caused by an auto-immune response... that's why they're so rare that it took months to even notice the data signal in the background noise.
The story even made the weekly "Fake News" list...
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden...1087ba0b1071b1
It's actually the full length spike protein, codon optimized in prefusion form. I can literally post the long sequence here if you want it.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32839784/
The AP is trash, and their fact checking is fake news. There were four ModRNA vaccine variants, the one that uses parts of the RBD was NOT selected. Only the NovaVax doesn't use the full spike protein.