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Just to clarify. Vaccines do nothing until you are infected. The effect we want is that it lessens the severity. -- (edited)

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Aug 19 '21, 13:14

It's not a virus-blocker. It influences how your body responds to the virus once you are infected.

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Right, it's not about the vaccine, it's about not wearing a mask. -- nm - mara Aug 19, 13:22
i was pretty sure it also helped prevent infection? the virus just can't take hold (not for everyone, obvie.) -- nm - Andie Aug 19, 13:17 11
- I mean, the virus has to get into you for the vaccine to do anything. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 13:25
- I don't think so. Vaccines only start to work when the virus is detected in the body, and technically that's an infection. -- nm* - mara Aug 19, 13:20 9
  - Infection could mean positive test and no symptoms. That's why we're being told to still wear a mask. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 13:25
  - CDC: Studies show that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting COVID-19. Getting a COVID-19 vaccine will also help keep you from - Andie Aug 19, 13:25 7
    - You're both right. Vaccines teach the body to attack the virus more quickly than the body would if it encountered the virus on its own. So vaccinated -- (edited) - TWuG Aug 19, 13:33
    - There's no phrasing like that on the page itself. Was it a link from something else? -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 13:28 5
      - what I see on the page is "helping protect against severe disease and death from variants " - loosilu Aug 19, 13:29
      - That is literally from the page. Under "EFFECTIVENESS, What we know" The second paragraph (first in white, not blue background) -- nm - Andie Aug 19, 13:29 3
        
        I see it now. I take issue with the phrasing. I think it's their attempt to keep it simple. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 13:30 2
        
        So, what they literally say is not what they mean? The CDC? -- nm - Andie Aug 19, 13:31 1
        
        The entire rest of the page says "protects you" rather than "keeps you from getting." This is real hair splitting. The fact isi - loosilu Aug 19, 13:35

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Just to clarify. Vaccines do nothing until you are infected. The effect we want is that it lessens the severity. -- (edited)

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