The vaccines are coming but tell me will they help.

Yes, the vaccine will help to prevent whoever accepts it from developing the disease and therefore will reduce the risk of them passing it on to someone else but, more importantly at first, it will help to prevent deaths amongst those who are highly vulnerable. The strategy in most countries - I don't know about Israel, but I expect that it's the same - is to control the number of infections which need hospital treatment in order to prevent the health services from becoming overloaded. If the disease had less serious complications (such as symptoms no worse than, say a cold or the 'flu), there would be no need for the restrictions because nearly everyone would be able to survive after a period of self-treatment at home. It is only because Covid-19 can have life-threatening complications which require hospitalisation that it's necessary to control the rate of infection by restrictions. The restrictions are there not to stop each of us as individuals from catching the disease but to prevent a huge wave of hospital admissions. If people would understand and accept the fact that the restrictions exist for the good of the community as a whole and not just to protect you or someone else whom you neither know nor care much about from 'catching Covid' - if people cared about their community and society more - there might be more acceptance of the restrictions. Restrictions are one thing: the vaccine is another arrow in the quiver of methods of dealing with a pandemic. Initially, it will be used to protect the most vulnerable people - those at high risk either because they have existing conditions or because they are performing essential services. Eventually, it is hoped that most people will develop immunity to Covid-19 with the help of the vaccine, just as we have to many other diseases, though, considering the fact that this virus is mutating quite fast, it is rather unlikely that we shall be able to eliminate it entirely, as we have done with small-pox. As yet, we don't know how long immunity lasts. An antibody which is effective against one form of the disease may not protect you from a slightly different form or the body just may store the antibody for a limited time. Even so, if one is offered the vaccine, it would be wise to take it, even if one may need repeat doses at regular intervals and in spite of the very small possibility that the vaccine itself may cause complications. By accepting the vaccine when it should be offered to you, you will not just be protecting yourself but protecting society as a whole, which will allow everyone to get back to some kind of normality.

There'll be restrictions when the vaccination starts because there's no way they can vaccinate everyone at once. The Pfizer vaccine needs to be stored at -70 degrees C and distributed fast when it's thawed, so the logistics are quite tricky. If you have lot of people not following rules and a high infection rate, it might be quite a few walking around that are or have been infected but with no symptoms. In populations like that, the vaccine'll be less effective because quite a few will already have immunity (more or less), but it's enough infection around for it to still spread. If there's hardly any cases, vaccinations will be more effective for stopping the spread. Unless you can vaccinate a lot of people at once of course. When enough people are vaccinated, the regulations can be less strict/lifted, but travel restrictions will depend on what other countries do. If a lot of people refuse to take the vaccine, it'll depend on the government what happens.

If you get the vaccine, it means you are unlikely to catch Covid and even if you do, it will be a very mild version of the disease. There will still be many, many cases if people keep ignoring the rules, but at least you will be safe yourself! Many people are worried about the safety of the vaccines because they have been produced so quickly. However, that's partly because many millions of dollars have been spent on them, and many laboratories around the world have worked on it together in a massive collaborative effort. Normally when researching a vaccine, it can take a year even to get the money together to start work! For most people, by the time you're eligible to get the vaccine, it will be next year sometime, and millions of people will already have been vaccinated. So you will know if there have been any adverse reactions and if it is safe.

The vaccine will help you to not covid19. I am going to get it as soon as I can.

Yes, I believe that the vaccination will be a good start. Our healthcare workers, who have been over worked thru this pandemic are at a greater risk of catching the virus both because of possible exposure but also because of fatigue, which draws the immune system negatively. From there the shots will be rolled out to the general public. And like our healthcare workers, many people are stressed, which negatively impacts their own immune system, and eventually everyone should be vaccinated which should help us live our lives. From what I understand there were not enough people with compromised immune issues in the test group, so they do not have much data on the effect that the shot will have on those individuals. That is a concern.

im not gonna take it. in fact, a lot of people are hesitant to take it.

Most of vaccine are effective and also have little bit side effects but no doubt these are helpful

I think they are fine and ready to be administered. They were checked.

Yes Hanni these are good questions to ask. And I have no answer for it as I do not trust all we are told. I certainly wont take medical advice from someone on myLot

I will be getting it as soon as it's offered.

I am hopeful that they will help.

It has been said that it is 95.6 effective, that is the laboratory experience or testing. When they put it out, it is a different story.

I think it is rather a hurried job but we had little choice in the circumstances. By wearing mask and maintaining safe distancing some countries have overcome the virus but that is no long term solution. We have to wait for the real outcome.

This vaccine has been developed in a hurry. Also it's not one time vaccination. It's effective for a certain period and you need to take it again and again like flu shots. We have to wait and watch to see the real effectiveness. I am hesitant to take it.

Every thing is new. Virus as well as vaccine so its long term safety and efficacy is yet to be ascertained. My view is better wait for some more time instead of hurrying to take a shot.

Yes and No. I am hoping that the vaccines will help to deal with multiple strains of virus and they have assess what are the type of vaccines that we should take based on the types of virus that we had here

Yes, I think the same here at least for a while. But the fear will be gone and that will make wearing a mask not so bad, I have lots of pretty ones. As soon as I am able I am getting the vaccine. I saw something on the news about Israel and the vaccine they hope to be the first country totally vaccinated.

They are saying that people wth allergies can't take Pfizer vaccine.

@Hannihar I have the same question.Are the vaccines that are coming effective and safe.I have no idea.Emergency trials are going on.Our own vaccine is scheduled to come by the end of December.I'll take it.Let me see how much effective it is.

i got a job but i'm in two minds