I am participating in a coronavirus vaccine trial. Prism Health North Texas is a research center for the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The AstraZeneca vaccine I took (if I got the actual vaccine and not a placebo) is an adenovirus-based vaccine. Drug manufacturers have been working with that virus for vaccines for decades.
Humans don’t get sick from adenovirus, but chimps do. It gives them a cold. A gene from the COVID-19 virus is spliced into the adenovirus, which a human recognizes as something to fight.
That triggers the body to produce antibodies to coronavirus, that is if the vaccine works as expected. So, no, you’re not injected with the coronavirus or anything that can cause the coronavirus disease.