I am vaccinated, Could I be infected? Unfortunately, yes.
COVID 19-vaccines are effective and can lower your risk of getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines also help prevent serious illness and death in children and adults even if they do get COVID-19.
Why I still have risk to still getting infected with Covid after Fully-Vaccinated?
- No Covid vaccine is 100% effective at stopping transmission or infection. There is a small risk that some fully vaccinated people will get infected. No vaccine offers full protection to everyone who receives it.
- The virus is constantly mutating, and the vaccine we used may not be 100% effective against the new mutation.
- The human immune response is encoded in our DNA and varies from person to person. This variability helps us to respond to an array of germs. But the effectiveness of these responses is also variable. This could also be due to several things, including poor health, medication or age.
- The aging immune system does not respond to new antigens and vaccines as well as younger immune systems. Some of the elderly participants had no neutralising antibodies at all after both doses of the vaccines.
- Viral variants that escape immune detection and flourish even in vaccinated people.
If that so, should we continue to vaccinate?
The answer is yes. According to CDC data released in August 2021, vaccinated individuals are:
8 times less likely to get COVID-19
25 times less likely to be hospitalized with CO