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99.2% of the COVID-19 deaths in May were from unvaccinated people, despite the fact that 78% of those over 65 (who are most likely to die from COVID-19) are fully vaccinated

What does "fully vaccinated" mean? Received a second dose 10 seconds before being infected by the virus? One month before?

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One is considered fully vaccinated 14 days after their last vaccine dose. For Moderna and Pfizer, that’s 14 days after the second dose. For J&J, that’s 14 days after the single dose is given.

It takes the body a while to fully ramp up the lymphocyte response. That’s the point of vaccination: ramp that up ahead of time so that by the time you’re exposed to the pathogen, your body is already prepared to destroy it, rather than your body having to play catch-up while the pathogen is busy replicating and destroying critical organs.