Dr. Anne Moore is a scientist based in UCC with an expertise in vaccine immunology, vaccine stability and infectious diseases.
She spoke to RTÉ's This Week to answer some questions about the Covid-19 vaccines which are awaiting regulatory approval. Q.
Okay Dr Moore, let's start with some basics here...what does a vaccine actually do? Dr Anne Moore: So a vaccine is a medicine that teaches the immune system to recognize and to respond to foreign invaders such as viruses.
So all of the Covid-19 vaccines, that have been developed for use in Ireland are taking what we call a sub-unit approach, whereby we're just using one protein from the virus.