Getting the COVID-19 vaccine protects you from COVID-19 and helps end the pandemic. It provides an instruction manual for your immune system to fight the virus that causes COVID-19.
Getting the vaccine protects you from serious illness.
- COVID-19 can have serious, life-threatening complications, and there is no way to anticipate how severely it may affect you and the people around you.
- The vaccine is highly effective at preventing COVID-19 infection.
- Experts believe that getting the vaccine may also keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.
It may protect the people around you.
- If you get sick, you could spread the disease to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
- Experts believe getting vaccinated yourself may protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
The vaccine offers immunity without the dangers of becoming infected.
- The risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19 far outweighs any possible benefits of immunity you may gain from getting sick.
- While getting COVID-19 may offer you a degree of natural protection for a time after you recover, experts don’t know for sure how long this protection lasts.
The vaccine helps our community move toward reopening.
- The vaccine is a critical tool for helping stop the pandemic so our community can reopen businesses, schools, and other activities we enjoyed before the pandemic began. Stopping a pandemic requires using all the tools we have available.
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