A critical review of mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy from mechanistic and public health perspectives
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Anna K Blakney, PhDa Send email to [email protected]
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This article provides a critical review of mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy from mechanistic, preclinical, clinical, and public health perspectives. It highlights mRNA vaccines as a transformative advance in vaccinology with rapid development timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity. The review draws on the unprecedented real-world evaluation from billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally across diverse populations.
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· 3 pulledmRNA vaccines represent a transformative advance in vaccinology, combining rapid development timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity with a favourable safety profile.
Global deployment of mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic provided an unprecedented real-world evaluation of this platform, with billions of doses administered across diverse populations.
In this Review, we critically examine the safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines from mechanistic, preclinical, clinical, and public health perspectives.
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