Originally Posted by
Tubman601
The vaccine doesn’t stop you getting COVID, it just makes it less severe if you do get it.
A new study by the CDC shows that a single dose provides an 80% reduction in the risk of infection, not just illness. The second dose improves that again.
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Under real-world conditions, mRNA vaccine effectiveness of full immunization (≥14 days after second dose) was 90% against SARS-CoV-2 infections regardless of symptom status; vaccine effectiveness of partial immunization (≥14 days after first dose but before second dose) was 80%."
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e3.htm