It's just really important to remember that after that first dose you're really
not afforded a whole lot of immunity. That is certainly not the time to let
your guard down and do things that have risks that you otherwise wouldn't have
done before the vaccination. When you get that second dose of vaccine your body
still needs a little bit of time to create that immunity.
When we look at those studies, that immunity, where they talk about 95%
effective, it usually happens at about day 7 to 10 after the second dose.
That's when you would have the immune response that would likely keep you from
getting sick with COVID-19. If you get the vaccine
we know that you're not going to get severely ill,
for most people you're not even have symptoms of COVID-19 if you're to come in
contact with the virus. But we don't know if you can still get
the virus and spread it to other people. Now, once we're all vaccinated,
it won't matter because if we spread it
to other people, no one's going to get sick, it's just not a big deal.
But right now, with so few people vaccinated, we need to be careful because
the last thing that we want to do is get vaccinated let our guard down and
then infect other people. All the vaccines right now - whether it's
the Pfizer vaccine, the Moderna vaccine, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine
which is likely to go for approval, the Astrazeneca vaccine
which is approved in some other countries - they all prevent you
from getting very sick, they all prevent you from dying.
If a vaccine is available to you don't ask so much
which vaccine it is. Get the vaccine.
Don't take the risk, don't throw the dice with a COVID-19 infection that we know is
killing people, that is putting people in the hospital.