[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/09/why-you-should-get-vaccinated-but-dont-need-a-third-shot.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/09/why-you-should-get-vaccinated-but-dont-need-a-third-shot.html - https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/09/why-you-should-get-vaccinated-but-dont-need-a-third-shot.html ; There were again a number of misleading comments about Covid-19 in yesterday's open thread. I have deleted a dozen or so of those. It doesn't help that the media are currently back at bad reporting about the various vaccine issues. Here are some clarifications about the current situation: Q: Why do people who were vaccinated still get Covid-19? A: The vaccines are not giving a 'sterilizing immunity'. They were not designed for that and never promised to do so. What the vaccines do in fairy reasonable quality is to prepare the body to fight Covid-19 early and effectively. Nearly all people who got vaccinated will be protected from a severe progression of the disease. Q: If the vaccine does not protect me from getting Covid-19 why should I still take one? A: SARS-CoV-2, which causes Convid-19, is a new virus and our bodies are not prepared to fight it. The vaccines, by looking like a part of the virus, are teaching the body to fight the real virus. Once that is done special cells in our bodies will remember that fight. As soon as they detect a real infection they will be ready to attack it. Q: But would that not also happen if just get infected by SARS-CoV-2 without being vaccinated? A: Yes it would. But the speed at which the body can fight the virus is much slower in unvaccinated people. Speed is of great importance here. Remember that the Covid-19 disease happens in two phases. The virus first attacks in the upper respiratory tract - the nose and throat. Some seven days or so later it goes down into the lungs. It then can cause a so called cytokine storm during which the body overreacts and attacks itself in multiple organs. To avoid a progression into the second phase of Covid-19 the body must fight the virus as fast as possible.
DJ Much more info...Maybe some people may need booster vaccines-discussion is still ongoing. You do not want to get CoViD !!!
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
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