Vaccines are pretty cool. But you know what’s cooler than being cool? (Ice cold 🥶?) Close - stopping variants in their tracks!
How do vaccines do this?
Check out this thread to learn more!
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Welcome to Variants 101! Before we learn how to stop them, it’s important to know what they are.
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Variants aren’t caused by vaccination. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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More vaccines =
Less transmission =
Less spread =
Fewer virus mutations.
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Less COVID-19 transmission is great, but even when the virus DOES transmit across a widely vaccinated population, the virus is less likely to mutate!
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Lots of misinformation has been spreading that compares vaccines to antibiotics. This simply isn’t true.
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To sum it all up, vaccines aren’t only great for protecting you and those around you, they ALSO help prevent the development of new variants! Woohoo!
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