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> "Vaccines are also supposed to prevent you from getting a disease." By now everyone should already know that this is not how vaccines work. You will still g
by kramerger 4y ago
> "Vaccines are also supposed to prevent you from getting a disease."
By now everyone should already know that this is not how vaccines work.
You will still get sick, but the vaccine has trained your body to recognise and fight the strain, so you're chance of survival will be much higher.
- refurb 4y agoIt's not how all vaccines work. But some do. For example we basically eradicated smallpox meaning that the resulting immunity will neutralize any virus when it enters the body preventing infection.
- nicolas_t 4y agoEven the smallpox vaccine had only 95% effectiveness. It turns out that 95% effectiveness, herd immunity and the fact that smallpox is a DNA virus with low mutation rate (RNA viruses like covid19 have much higher mutation rate and as such a lot more variants reducing effectiveness of any given vaccine over time) was enough to eradicate Smallpox. But that doesn't mean that the vaccine was 100% effective, as an other poster pointed out, some vaccinated children still got infected with small but the vaccine reduced the risk drastically https://daraj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5a2b8126-e638-49be-8f0a-b222fb74215d.jpg https://daraj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5a2b8126-e638-4...
- refurb 4y agoYou’re making a different point. Vaccines can be sterilizing (preventing infection) or non-sterilizing (reducing disease severity). Regardless, no vaccine works in 100% of all people who receive it.
- squidbeak 4y agoHow do you explain the eradication of notorious viral diseases by vaccine?
- taolegal 4y ago> so you're (sic) chance of survival will be much higher But if we literally measure the survival by how infinitesimally close to 100% it is, maybe we should just identify the risk profile of who's likely to die. Spoiler: we did that.