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by maxerickson 1899 days ago
That's a different technology than the Adenovirus vectors.

There's no plasmids in the Covid vaccines, a virus has been modified to include instructions for the target proteins.

Edit: plasmids are used to encode the virus for production, they aren't part of the delivery mechanism: https://www.addgene.org/viral-vectors/