Question about Vaccine Adjuvants and COVID-19

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6. Vaccine adjuvants are substances added to a vaccine to stimulate a greater immune response...

... to the antigen(the virus, bacterium, fungus) you are targeting against. When you get a vaccine shot, and it swells or gets sore for a while, that is as i understand it mostly due to the vaccine adjuvants.

As a bad analogy, the adjuvant is a crook who drives a car through a store window, fires his gun into the air and blows the car horn to bring about an overwhelming police(body's immune) response. In a COVID-19 vaccine, perhaps inactive SARS-COV2 virus is like a patsy riding shotgun in the car, but thanks to the adjuvant, the patsy will be arrested on the spot(innate immune response) and taken to jail(Lymph node) where he will be booked into the system(adaptive immune response) so he can be dealt with more readily in the future.