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Your vaccine history and mask-wearing can reduce COVID-19 symptoms.

Good news!

Vaccines strengthen your immune system

"When we looked in the setting of Covid disease, we found that people who had prior vaccinations with a variety of vaccines -- for pneumococcus, influenza, hepatitis and others -- appeared to have a lower risk of getting Covid disease," Dr. Andrew Badley, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night.

It's what immunologists call immune training: how your immune system creates an effective response to fight off infections, Badley says.

"A good analogy is to think of your immune system as being a muscle," he said. "The more you exercise that muscle, the stronger it will be when you need it."

Masks reduce how much of the virus gets into your body

Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at University of California, San Francisco, has been working with a team of researchers to understand how more people could go through their infections with minimal or no symptoms.

About 40% of people infected with the virus don't have symptoms, according to an estimate last month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gandhi's team found masks make a difference.

But once you're infected, how much of the virus made it into your body could also have an impact on what your experience is, another expert told CNN on Monday.

"What the mask does is really reduce the amount of virus that you get in, if you do get infected," she said. "And by reducing that ... you have a lower dose, you're able to manage it, you're able to have a calm response and you have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all."

[cnn.com]

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Glad I just did the two dose Shingles Vaccine.......

I need the two dose shingle shot because I've already had the one but my doctor recommended that I wait until Covid dies down.

I had shingles at 41. It blew toads.

@Lorajay I lucked out and got my second one in January.....

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Now if everybody would comply with that, we would all be better off. I'll try be one first ones in line for vaccine when it's ready.

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Good information. I’m glad to know all those other vaccines I’ve had may be doing some good here too. My list of vaccinations is fairly long.

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I fully vaccinated . ..

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I keep up to date on all my vaccines ,just waiting to get my 2nd updates shingles shot next month ,Then i am all caught up till the flu vaccine comes out Plus i have found that taking 5000 IU of Vitamin D has been a great cold reducer in the winter or far less severe ones

@RoyMillar

I always get an annual flu shot. Also had updated vaccines for pneumonia (2), shingles (2), hepatitis and tetanus.

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Lmao. Except for final shingles shot have all of those also. So very happy your feeling so happy 🤗🤗 and Yes what a wonderful day

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Am up to date on all vaccines

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 11, 2020
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That's great for those who can take the things. Not everyone who doesn't get vacs is some kind of nut. Some of us can't . I've had so many severe reactions ( as in hospitalized) to the things, they won't give them to me anymore.

That's why everyone else getting vaccination is so important you can be protected that way

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