To the editor: Why do people still misunderstand vaccines (“When Covid got, readers said he showed that vaccines do not work. What has Rfk Jr. forged?” September 9)? It is really not difficult. The main thing to know is that vaccines are not, in terms of science, preventive medicine. They do not keep the disease out of their body. Vaccines really do exactly what the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says He wants to do: improve your personal immune system.
Think of them as a personal coach for a particular sport. They train their immune system to recognize a threat so that it can be faster when reacting and stronger to fight it. They do this giving their body a small sample of “bad things.” This generates its immune system to fight whatever, be it polio, measles, tuberculosis, flu or covid. Immunizar does not prevent you from getting sick, but if you find “bad things,” you have a very good opportunity to fight him.
As Columnist Steve López pointed out, he got sick slightly when he had Covid, but was not hospitalized. Compare your situation with which during the pandemic before the vaccine was developed. Many people were hospitalized with serious diseases, and many people died from the disease before learning to train our immune systems to defend themselves.
Better. Faster Stronger. This is how vaccines work.
Dee Ois, Chatsworth
