Source:  NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 12/16/20


COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the lives of people across the United States and around the world. Vaccines are now becoming available that can help us address this public health crisis, but many people have questions about these new vaccines.

To address some of these questions, we sat down (socially distantly) with experts from NC State to address issues ranging from safety to manufacturing to how the vaccines will be distributed. 

Because there are so many questions, we have broken the Q&As up into a series of posts about vaccines. We will be adding to the series over time.

In this post, we focus on how vaccines work and what mRNA and adenovirus vaccines are. To address those questions, we spoke with Matt Koci, a virologist and immunologist whose work focuses on host-microbe interactions in birds. Koci is a professor in NC State’s Prestage Department of Poultry Science.

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