Facts about COVID-19 vaccination you might not know
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1. The health risks from infection are far greater than from vaccination.
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2. Even healthy young people can get severely ill, die, or have long-term negative effects from COVID-19 infection.
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3. COVID-19 vaccines don’t stay in your body. They teach your immune system to fight the virus and then they disappear. In contrast, if you get COVID-19, you’re going to have billions and billions of copies of the virus in your body for at least 7-10 days.
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4. Nearly every doctor who has been offered a COVID-19 vaccine got it as soon as it was available to them.
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5. The more of us who get vaccinated, the faster we can get everyone back to work and rebuild our economy.
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6. With an increase in vaccinations, we can save at least 100,000 U.S. residents who would otherwise be killed by COVID-19.
Source: Tom Frieden, MD, former director of the CDC and currently CEO of Resolve to Save Lives.