Adel Shahali O. Macugar May 3, 2021 BS MLS-1E Ma’am Cindy R.

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Self: Task No.6

Overall, the video was wholesome especially to the part where the team rejoiced as the
vaccine was proven to be effective with efficacy rates of 95%. Me with basic prior knowledge
and understanding with how vaccines work due to numerous articles searching by the time of
COVID, the information being said with the video is already known to me. Even with knowledge,
I learned more information and things with the video that I could share with my peers and to
my family. Where I could try to help remove the fear of vaccines, stereotypes, and conspiracy
theories related to the vaccine. The reason why I really like these videos as a whole is because
they give you information that you can use to counter false information you can find in the
internet. This has been helping me convince people that these conspiracies are nothing but
false things and are just done to scare the people into taking the vaccine. Watching the video
makes me more passionate of my new-found future job which is to become a respected
Epidemiologist.

Well, it’s not technically that vaccines are the only thing that can stop the virus, our
immune responses are built to fight off these invaders. People will get immunity over
continuous exposure of the virus as time goes by given the idea that no vaccine is created. But
with that in mind, we would have huge numbers of deaths, avoidable deaths, and people
hospitalized. Thus, vaccines must be made to help our bodies fight the virus without the need
of getting hospitalized. Developing vaccines can help medical institutions fight efficiently due to
them able to accommodate people who need treatment. Take India, their hospitals there are
crowded and these institutions cannot take more patients anymore. Thus, cases of avoidable
deaths will rise due to them not able to take care of patients coming day by day.

To think about it, doing compulsory vaccination is important especially on pandemics like
this. Vaccinating the whole of the populace is a good thing, but there’s actually no need of like
vaccinating everyone as a whole, not in a direct manner but in a slow but progressive one. By
standards, vaccinating even more than 50% of the population is already enough to tame and
fend off the pandemic. Herd Immunity will take care of the others who are not vaccines. Take a
jeepney scenario. Let’s say that its full capacity, 2 passengers on the very back part has Covid,
the ones in the middle are vaccinated, while 3 people on the other are not. They will not
contract Covid from the people of the back part of the Jeep due to the vaccinated people in the
middle will serve as a protective barrier for these people, achieving herd immunity. Also, in the
case of Covid vaccines, what they primarily do is lessen the chance of you getting hospitalized,
having severe symptoms, and worse, death. The vaccine will help the body fight the virus
without getting those. People contracting Covid again even though getting vaccinated is normal,
but in this case, you will just have cold and cough, rather than having a higher chance of getting
hospitalized and dying from it. Thus, the reason why people should still wear a mask even
though they are vaccinated. Vaccines can help, and they have always been since before. That
would be all.