The Seventh Day TV broadcast a special coverage on the importance of receiving vaccinations, which was presented by our colleague Raghda Bakr.
In fact, vaccines against Covid were developed with one main purpose: to reduce the risk of severe complications, which are those that require hospitalization, placement on respirators, or symptoms that lead to death..
Despite the simplicity of the explanation, the immune process is very complex, and requires a large force of cells and antibodies. Therefore, the immune response varies greatly depending on the type of virus, its ability to mutate, the way the vaccine was developed, health problems a person may have, and other variants of the virus..
Therefore, it is difficult to develop immunity that can prevent infection itself, i.e. prevent the pathogen from entering our cells, but the important point: even in cases in which the vaccine cannot prevent infection, the immune response that the vaccine produces often relieves symptoms and is less severe, thus preventing severe illness and death..
Evidence of this is the waves that occurred between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 related to the Omicron mutation, when many countries broke records in the number of cases, but hospitalization and death rates were much lower than in other waves of the epidemic..