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Originally Posted by birdiebill
What it means to me is that the vaccine will protect us with up to 95% protection from getting sick from the Covid virus. We still have a 5% chance of getting sick. To get sick, the virus has to get inside our human cells. The vaccine is designed to prevent the virus from getting inside our cells. But, it is unknown if a virus can enter our respiratory tree (nose, mouth, airway, lungs), not be able to enter any of our cells, but then pass out of our respiratory tree and infect someone close to us who has not been vaccinated.
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What the 95% efficacy rate means that there are people who the vaccine will not work for. Since people are not being tested afterwards to confirm they have the antibodies, then one doesn’t know for whom the vaccine worked or not. Also, no one knows how many antibodies anyone got, how strong they are going to be, and how long it is going to last. Another concern is the variants, which reduces the efficacy of the vaccine. Both Pfizer and Moderna were tested with the coronavirus that was available at that time. Unfortunately that coronavirus strain is no longer the primary one. Thus, to protect oneself and others, one needs to continue to social distance, wear a mask, clean their hands often.
What Fauci said which I have not found to be true is that the current vaccines will stop replication of the virus. The RMA viruses do not work in that way. What they do is programs the cell to produce antibodies to make one less likely to get sick, or if they do, have weaker symptoms. (If anyone finds scientific data to the contrary, please share) The vaccines that use the adenovirus cell and the synthetic coronavirus, that we are waiting to get approved, will.