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Mar 14, 2020 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
There's still a lot of misunderstanding about HMG response to #COVID_19uk. I'm no epidemiologist, but I *am* an expert at explaining biological ideas to people, so here is an explainer thread of the situation. Corrections / questions welcome. 1/n
First up - vaccines and immunity.
A vaccine is a medicine which helps you become immune to a particular disease without making you ill. Your immune system responds to the weakened version of the disease (the vaccine), thus building immunity to the real disease. 2/n
