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Some statistics suggest that 98% have been cured of the virus without the vaccine, while the effectiveness of the vaccine is only 95%. If this is true, what’s the need for the vaccine? Ujval Jain The numbers you mention are correct. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the vaccines we are talking about is variable from 60% to 90%. But reasons to go for vaccination are different. Vaccine is given to a healthy individual with the purpose that either infection is prevented or it makes the disease very mild in terms of symptoms, etc., and most likely the person does not spread it further and thereby works as a speed breaker for the virus. Those 98% currently recovered people are likely to have spread the virus, unlike vaccinated people. Vaccination is also less likely to have long-term adverse effects (popularly referred to as ‘long Covid’), which is a concern, as much less is understood about this aspect of Covid-19. ....