Coronavirus (non political)

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

No vaccines are 100% effective. Take the flu vaccine for example. Does it prevent you 100% from getting the flu? No, never has. It's generally 30-40% effective and it will help reduce the severity if you do get it. Some vaccines are more effective than others. The idea is to get enough of the population vaccinated to reduce the spread and severity of the disease.

https://www.immune.org.nz/vaccines/e...-effectiveness

I guess people just need to be able to equate this vaccine to the flu shot.

Is the flu shot actually categorized as a vaccine? It's just always been called the flu shot, never really thought about it before.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

I guess people just need to be able to equate this vaccine to the flu shot.

Is the flu shot actually categorized as a vaccine? It's just always been called the flu shot, never really thought about it before.

yes it's a vaccine

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

yes it's a vaccine

I guess the vaccine category is way more broad than I thought it was. Having to get it every year doesn't seem like a "vaccine" to me. But I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again.