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Originally Posted by spike021
Someone I know told me yesterday they’re questioning why we’re being told we’ll still need to wear masks after getting the vaccine despite such high efficacy.
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I think this is more about a need to wear masks until we reach a certain level of herd immunity through exposure and vaccines. Once the number of cases and deaths fall then we will lower restrictions and that will be the real test to how well the vaccine worked. It is likely the vaccine will be just as effective over the entire population as it was in the trials, but we can't have part of the population wearing masks and some not wearing masks until we get there. People may still be carriers, or rather said, people could still be capable of shedding the virus, so they could expose those who haven't been vaccinated, even if they were vaccinated, which is why it is necessary to wear masks until enough people are immune.