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What are the ingredients of Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine? (MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013538/what-are-the-ingredients-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine/by Antonio Regalado
Excerpt:
. . .
Here, for instance, is what the US Food and Drug Administration says is in Pfizers vaccine:
Active Ingredient
nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) encoding the viral spike glycoprotein (S) of SARS-CoV-2
Lipids
(4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis (ALC-3015)
(2- hexyldecanoate),2-[(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide (ALC-0159)
1,2-distearoyl-snglycero-3-phosphocholine (DPSC)
cholesterol
Salts
potassium chloride
monobasic potassium phosphate
sodium chloride
basic sodium phosphate dihydrate
Other
sucrose
. . . more - go have a read
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What are the ingredients of Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine? (MIT Technology Review) (Original Post)
swag
Dec 2020
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Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)1. Other includes eye of newt.
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)2. LOL
NNadir
(33,527 posts)3. One of the things people do, is freak out over long chemical names.
It would be a crime is people refused this vaccine because the don't understand what is the case here. These long chemical names refer to lipids, basically, fats.
There is very little in these excipients and buffering salts that is anything but things readily metabolized by existing enzymes.
I resent giving scientifically ignorant antivaxxers, some who are regrettably posting here any more ammunition to cause harm by appeal to said ignorance.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)4. +1. Lead and arsenic are short names, and all-natural