re: Why take the COVID Vaccine?(Not a Anti-Vaxer)

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It just lessens the severity of it.

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This can be very significant. COVID can be more than just a respiratory disease. My colleagues young patients with chronic neurological complications from COVID-related strokes, GI infarcts, heart disease, etc. Reducing morbidity is important.

While it hasn't been proven to prevent transmission, it probably significantly reduce it so you the more people that get vaccinated, the better chance we have of reducing prevalence.