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Why is it called a vaccine if it doesn't give immunity?

Like you can still get covid and pass it to others after having he vaccine
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Yes, "immune" is perhaps a poor choice of words. No vaccine is 100% effective. However, the vaccine does significantly reduce the risk of death, being hospitalised, having mild symptoms and also reduces transmission. Not completely, but it does reduce it.
Vaccines don't really stop you from getting a virus. You still get infected, but your body has loads of antibodies pre-prepared by the vaccine to fight it.

If you didn't have the vaccine your body would have no antibodies ready and is basically defenseless. It has to make them from scratch while the virus is already in the body wreacking havoc.

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