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These [COVID] vaccines are safer than aspirin....Vaccines still remain the number one, two, three, four, and five tool to stop this pandemic - Michael T. Osterholm
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Vaccines Are Like Sunscreen … No, Wait, Airbags … No, Wait …
This is, in some ways, a mea culpa.
For the past year or so, I’ve been reporting on the COVID-19 vaccines, a job that’s required me to convey, again and again, how inoculations work to boost immunity and why. The shots are new, and immunology is complex. So I, like so many others in journalism and science, turned to analogies to help make the ideas of disease prevention and public health tangible. Vaccines, as I’ve written, protect us a lot like umbrellas block out the rain, sunscreens shield us from burns and cancers, and castle guards fend off raids.
Analogies, metaphors, similes, and the like are evocative and memorable. They transform the abstract into the concrete.…
Resources
3 Experts on Why Young, Healthy People Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
Without young people—including kids—getting vaccinated, hopes for herd immunity in the U.S. are dim.
Benefits of Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine
Once you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing more.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: 12 Things You Need to Know
Johns Hopkins Medicine views all authorized COVID-19 vaccines as highly effective at preventing serious disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. To support you as you make your decision, here are 12 facts and insights, shared by Sherita Golden, M.D., M.H.S., chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who specializes in diabetes, heart conditions and patterns of disease in diverse communities.
People who already had COVID-19 should still get vaccinated, scientists urge
It’s also not yet crystal clear whether immunity from contracting COVID-19 is as powerful as the protection of a vaccine. What is evident is that the available vaccines mount crucial defenses against severe disease and death—even against more contagious variants such as Delta.
Should my child get the COVID-19 vaccine? 7 questions answered by a pediatric infectious disease expert
Children are experiencing unprecedented increases in indirect adverse health and educational consequences related to the pandemic, and we need to find ways to help them get quickly and safely back to normal life. Vaccination is one of them.
Vaccines Save Lives
Vaccines save millions of lives each year. The development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines is a huge step forward in our global effort to end the pandemic and to get back to doing more of the things we enjoy with the people we love
Why Get Vaccinated?
All three of the COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States have been shown to be safe. None of the vaccines contain live virus, and they cannot infect recipients with COVID-19.
Why should I get vaccinated for COVID-19?
Learn about the health, social and economic benefits of being vaccinated for COVID-19.
Why you should get a COVID-19 vaccine – even if you’ve already had the coronavirus
The problem is that not everyone will develop immunity after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. As many as 9% of infected people do not have detectable antibodies, and up to 7% of people don’t have T cells that recognize the virus 30 days after infection.
Vaccines Are Like Sunscreen … No, Wait, Airbags … No, Wait …
All figurative comparisons fall short in some way because vaccines are, literally, one of the best tools for protection that we have ever invented.
GetVaccineAnswers.com
The COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative is led by the Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative with the involvement of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to educate the American public and build confidence around the COVID-19 vaccines.
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