Covid-19 Vaccination at Covid V Care

Coronavirus disease or COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly identified strain of coronavirus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). This strain of coronavirus has not been previously identified in humans. It is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly infect humans. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020.

COVID-19 most commonly spreads from person to person. You can get infected by coming into direct contact (around 6 feet or 1.8 meters or two arm lengths) with a person who has the disease. The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through small airborne particles or respiratory droplets, such as those in aerosols, produced when an infected person sneezes, coughs, breathes, talks, or sings. These particles can be inhaled into your nose, mouth, airways, and lungs, causing infection. The droplets may also land on objects and surfaces so that they can be transferred by touch. While spread from touching surfaces is not thought to be the primary way the virus spreads, you can get COVID-19 by touching an object with the virus on it, then touching your nose, mouth, or eyes.

The symptoms of COVID-19 can range from mild (or even no symptoms) to severe illness, such as cough, shortness of breath, fever, pneumonia, and breathing difficulties. The disease can be fatal, and some cases have caused death. Older people, as well as those with underlying health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and cardiovascular disease, are more likely to develop severe illness. Those infected with COVID-19 have a 2 to 14 day latency period, where they are asymptomatic. Because of this reason, it is hard to detect and prevent the virus’s spread quickly.

Due to the urgency posed by the pandemic, global efforts to develop and study COVID-19 vaccines have been ongoing since the very beginning of the outbreak. Today, the first COVID-19 vaccines are starting to be introduced in countries around the world.

A COVID-19 vaccine might prevent you from getting the disease. Based on early data from clinical trials, the vaccine might also keep you from developing serious complications or from becoming severely ill if you do get COVID-19. Getting vaccinated might help protect those around you from the disease as well, particularly people at increased risk of serious illness from COVID-19. For these reasons, COVID-19 vaccination is an essential tool to help stop the pandemic.

There are several different types of COVID-19 vaccines, including mRNA vaccines, vector vaccines, and protein subunit vaccines, which work in various ways to offer protection. Various kinds of COVID-19 vaccines generally work in similar ways. They work by helping our bodies develop immunity to the virus, causing COVID-19 without us having to get the illness. The vaccines are a part of the virus that our body can recognize and develop an immune response to. The next time we are exposed to the virus, our body already has fighters called antibodies that are ready to protect us from the infection.

Since the COVID-19 vaccines currently being developed do not use the live virus causing COVID-19, it will not give you COVID-19.