OpEd: 'The key takeaway is that these vaccines really work... whether they stop someone from contracting the virus in the first place, protect someone from moderate disease, or protect them from severe effects and death.'
in 40 states and Washington, D.C., is instructive. Arkansas had the highest hospitalization rate among fully vaccinated people at 4.7%, according to the’ data; but in many states, including California, New Jersey, and Indiana, hospitalization rates were below 1% for fully vaccinated people. Data is changing by the day as more people get COVID-19, so it's hard to make permanent inferences from current hospitalization rates.
But not all immune systems are created equally. Some might take longer to work even with the vaccine, or simply not be as strong as others. Still, the key takeaway is that these vaccines really work. There are multiple ways of evaluating their efficacy: whether they stop someone from contracting the virus in the first place, protect someone from moderate disease, or protect them from severe effects and death.
Our most dangerous encounter with the virus comes down to our first contact with it, he says. A vaccine introduces to our bodies a small piece of the virus that cannot be replicated or cause harm. That primes the immune system for a second and less harmful contact. It’s the novel part of the novel coronavirus that makes it so potent. “The more times you see it, the better your response is going to be,” Shapiro says, “and the more your immune system is going to take care of it.
For those concerned that they may have a breakthrough case, testing is always a good bet. Gronvall notes that local pharmacies have relatively inexpensiveUltimately, Shapiro sees a future in which COVID-19 is simply a part of everyday life, like remnants of the Spanish flu from the 1918 pandemic still circulate in today’s flus. “COVID will continue to circulate, but COVID is in the process of becoming like the flu," Shapiro says.
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