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  • The people who are going to be  prioritized to receive the vaccines

  • are healthcare workers who are on the front lines,  

  • as well as anybody who works in a hospital, and  then those who live in skilled nursing facilities.  

  • Skilled nursing facilities account for about 6%  of the population, but almost 40% of the deaths  

  • due to COVID. So these are very high-risk  individuals for bad outcomes from COVID.  

  • It looks like it's the same kind of side effects  that you would get from influenza or a tetanus  

  • shot. You get a sore arm for a day or twomaybe a headache or fatigue, and then that  

  • goes away.

  • There's no way that you can get  COVID from the coronavirus vaccine.

  • There's absolutely no way. It's just a small fragment  of the RNA that encodes

  • for a small portion of the spike protein.

  • So it doesn't replicateit can't replicate, and it can't cause COVID.

  • We're going to have to be masking and social  distancing for the foreseeable future. When we'll  

  • be able to stop masking and social distancing is  when we achieve some level of herd immunity within  

  • our communities. That's going to take 60 to 70%  of the population to be immune. Right now, through  

  • infection, if people are immune after infectionwhich we're still not sure, there's been less than  

  • 10% of people in the US who have been infectedAnd then when the vaccine comes out, it's going to  

  • come out in limited quantities, and so we're not going  to be able to vaccinate everybody all at once.  

  • So, we anticipate that we will be able to achieve  that 60 to 70% immunity either through infection  

  • plus immunization in maybe the middle of 2021,  maybe the end of 2021. We'll just have to see.  

  • There's three main vaccines, and two  of them are messenger RNA vaccines,  

  • mRNA, and those are the ones produced by Pfizer  as well as Moderna. Those vaccines, what they are,  

  • is a fragment of the messenger RNA that encodes  for a certain portion of the spike protein of  

  • the coronavirus. That's the vaccine. So when  that is given to us, then our own cells make  

  • that protein, just a fragment of that protein, and  then we have an immune response to that protein.  

  • That's how they work to develop  immunity. The other vaccine is  

  • similar. The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccineit's a non replicating adenovirus vector  

  • that again has a fragment of the spike proteinand so then we get an immune response to that.

The people who are going to be  prioritized to receive the vaccines

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