I asked the CDC this question. How is it that the shot does not prevent illness or transmission but does prevent severe illness? How does the shot do that, specifically?
It’s been over a month and no answer.
Several of my vaxxed to the max friends have had covid bad for a month. Is that considered severe?
It's not my area of expertise but the layman's explanation is the vaccines stimulate our immune systems to produce antibodies and other defenses against the virus.
As the virus mutates it's able to bypass some of those defenses and cause infection but our bolstered immune systems are able to reduce the severity of the disease the virus causes.
Several of my vaxxed to the max friends have had covid bad for a month. Is that considered severe?
Most of the studies I'm aware of use hospitalization as a proxy for severe disease. Probably because that data is readily available while ill people at home often don't get reported to anyone.