Public and private sector health officials and public policymakers should team up immediately with community leaders to more effectively disseminate accurate narratives regarding the life-saving benefits of vaccines to counter widespread, harmful misinformation from anti-vaccine activists.
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ecently, experts at the University of California shared their views on whether COVID-19 is here to stay. They now answer more questions related to COVID-19 vaccines, face masks, antibodies, herd immunity, and coronavirus variants.
Can people who got the vaccine be carriers?
The vaccine against COVID is intended to produce an immune response against the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes disease as it tricks the immune system into thinking it is responding to an actual infection. Ideally, the best vaccine induces a stronger immune response than an actual infection. So far, the evidence is that the available vaccines against COVID-19 actually do a better job at inducing immunity than an actual infection.
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