Here’s Why You Should, Wear a Mask, After Getting Vaccinated.<br />As COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the world, many people<br />are wondering what that means for current mask-wearing protocols.<br />Although vaccines are proven to prevent serious illness,<br />it’s unclear whether they completely curb COVID-19 infection.<br />It’s possible that some vaccinated people<br />could still be silent spreaders of the virus.<br />When it comes to respiratory infections<br />such as COVID-19, the nose is a main point<br />of entry into the human body.<br />Viruses rapidly multiply in the nose and<br />prompt the immune system to produce<br />antibodies specific to mucosa.<br />Mucosa is a type of moist tissue that is unique to<br />your nose, mouth, lungs and stomach. .<br />If exposed to the virus a second time, those<br />antibodies are able to shut it down in the nose before<br />it has the chance to travel deeper into the body. .<br />This is why mucosal vaccines, such as FluMist, are<br />more effective at fending off respiratory viruses. .<br />The current COVID-19 vaccines are not<br />mucosal. They are injected deep into a person’s<br />muscles to stimulate an immune response.<br />This protects the vaccine recipient from getting ill, <br />but the virus could still bloom in the nose and be <br />sneezed or breathed out onto others. .<br />Preventing severe disease is easiest,<br />preventing mild disease is harder, and<br />preventing all infections is the hardest …<br />If it’s 95 percent effective at preventing<br />symptomatic disease, it’s going to be<br />something less than that in preventing<br />all infections, for sure, University of Arizona Immunologist<br />Deepta Bhattacharya, via ‘The New York Times’.<br />Moderna and Pfizer are currently examining<br />past participants in order to determine whether they became<br />infected with COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine.
