Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke-down what's in the COVID vaccine, what it does and how it works, after getting the shot herself.
The Congresswoman posted on IG the Pfizer vaccine being administered to her and explained it.
AOC explains the vaccine is not the virus, unlike other vaccines which contain a dead version of the virus to train our bodies to recognize and fight it.
Ocasio-Cortez characterizes it getting a photo of a burglar in hopes of being able to recognize it before he infiltrates.
We're getting mRNA of COVID (aka SARS-CoV-2), as a forewarning of the real virus, so when you come into contact with it your body's already prepped.
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