No vaccine is perfect. That includes the COVID-19 vaccines. But they don’t need to be to save millions of lives.
COVID-19 vaccines still help prevent transmission – both directly and indirectly.
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No vaccine is perfect. That includes the COVID-19 vaccines.
But they don’t need to be in order to save millions of lives.
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