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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
I'm not sure why people (left and right) express shock (or glee) when a vaccinated person gets the virus. NONE of the vaccines are 100% effective. So there WILL be asymptomatic cases and there WILL be vaccinated people who die from it.
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Exactly. The vaccines are not a magical shield that COVID-19 cannot penetrate. That's sci-fi.
The vaccines give you body a taste of the virus, so to speak, in order to better prepare the body for when the virus actually enters the body. Antibodies are inside the body, and not a shield around it.
The issue is, that in some people, the vaccine is not sufficient enough to kick start the body's production of antibodies, or not enough antibodies are produced as a result of the shot.
It's all about risk mitigation: is something that is 90% effective sufficient to do battle against the virus? So far, the data has shown that it is. While infection rates may go up, people aren't being hospitalized and/or dying at the same rates as last spring and summer. That means the vaccines are working as designed.