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Waning Immunity Is Not a Crisis, Right Now

Vaccines don’t last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them, a tenure on the order of days, perhaps a few weeks. What does have staying power, though, is the immunological impression that […]

What happens when vaccinated people get COVID-19?

A new dichotomy has begun to haunt the discourse of the pandemic. With the rise of the super-transmissible Delta variant, experts say any going to get vaccinated, or going to get the coronavirus. For some people, a decent number of us will actually be both. Coronavirus infections are occurring among vaccinated people. They will continue […]