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You don't need to worry about COVID vaccines being 'unnatural' or 'synthetic'

  • Written by: Archa Fox, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
You don't need to worry about COVID vaccines being 'unnatural' or 'synthetic'Tara Croser/AAP

The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are some of our best weapons in the fight against COVID-19. They’re highly effective and many millions of people around the world have received their doses.

These vaccines are the first to be made synthetically, that is, they are made outside of a living cell.

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