Vaccines can prevent a serious case of COVID-19
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Public health experts are quick to emphasize that when the COVID-19 vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson — were approved for emergency use, it was made clear that they would deter the onset of serious COVID. What they couldn’t do was keep people from getting ill altogether. “The good news is for that very small amount of people that might become infected, that less than 5%, the chances of severe disease is next to zero,” Dr. Timothy Hendrix tells Click Orlando.
It’s important to remember that even if you, your loved ones, and friends are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, public health experts say that’s not a reason to let your guard down. Director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s vaccine education center Dr. Paul Offit tells TIME that people may not really understand what it means to get vaccinated, and what having vaccines that are “90 percent effective” means. “People may interpret these results as meaning, ‘Great, now that I’m vaccinated I don’t need to wear a mask because I’m not at risk of infection,’” he says. “The problem with that are the variants. You can still get sick if you are exposed to a variant, and you can still shed and spread the virus.”
As Emory University professor of medicine Dr. Carlos Del Rio put it, “The protection against infection wasn’t perfect — 80% to 90%. Can I increase that to closer to 100% by wearing a mask? Yes.”
Can You Really Get COVID-19 After Getting The Vaccine?
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By Hope Ngo/April 1, 2021 10:29 am EST
Pandemic expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he isn’t surprised to see that a handful of folks come down with the coronavirus even after they’ve been fully inoculated. “You will see breakthrough infections in any vaccination when you’re vaccinating literally tens and tens and tens of millions of people. So, in some respects, that’s not surprising,” Dr. Fauci says.
Vaccines can prevent a serious case of COVID-19
Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Public health experts are quick to emphasize that when the COVID-19 vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson — were approved for emergency use, it was made clear that they would deter the onset of serious COVID. What they couldn’t do was keep people from getting ill altogether. “The good news is for that very small amount of people that might become infected, that less than 5%, the chances of severe disease is next to zero,” Dr. Timothy Hendrix tells Click Orlando.
It’s important to remember that even if you, your loved ones, and friends are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, public health experts say that’s not a reason to let your guard down. Director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s vaccine education center Dr. Paul Offit tells TIME that people may not really understand what it means to get vaccinated, and what having vaccines that are “90 percent effective” means. “People may interpret these results as meaning, ‘Great, now that I’m vaccinated I don’t need to wear a mask because I’m not at risk of infection,’” he says. “The problem with that are the variants. You can still get sick if you are exposed to a variant, and you can still shed and spread the virus.”
As Emory University professor of medicine Dr. Carlos Del Rio put it, “The protection against infection wasn’t perfect — 80% to 90%. Can I increase that to closer to 100% by wearing a mask? Yes.”
It’s important to remember that even if you, your loved ones, and friends are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, public health experts say that’s not a reason to let your guard down. Director of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s vaccine education center Dr. Paul Offit tells TIME that people may not really understand what it means to get vaccinated, and what having vaccines that are “90 percent effective” means.
“People may interpret these results as meaning, ‘Great, now that I’m vaccinated I don’t need to wear a mask because I’m not at risk of infection,’” he says. “The problem with that are the variants. You can still get sick if you are exposed to a variant, and you can still shed and spread the virus.”
As Emory University professor of medicine Dr. Carlos Del Rio put it, “The protection against infection wasn’t perfect — 80% to 90%. Can I increase that to closer to 100% by wearing a mask? Yes.”
