- One physician in Alabama made headlines last week after having to explain to severely ill patients that COVID-19 vaccines couldn’t help them after they’d developed the disease.
- The vaccines work by helping your immune system learn to identify and fight off the coronavirus.
- As a result, vaccines protect you from getting and transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19.
By now, you’ve probably heard of the many amazing things the COVID-19 vaccines can do.
They help stop the transmission of the virus, they keep people out of the hospital with serious cases, and most importantly, they help save your life and the lives of those around you.
But there’s one thing the vaccines can’t do — they can’t help fight COVID-19 if you already have it.
One physician in Alabama made headlines last week after having to explain this to severely ill patients.
In a story that went viral last week, Dr. Brytney Cobia begged followers on Facebook to get the vaccine as soon as possible in the wake of seeing new patients in critical care who didn’t have the vaccine.
Source: healthline