How do the COVID-19 vaccines work?
There are 3 COVID-19 vaccines in the national vaccine rollout:
These vaccines will protect you from getting severely ill or dying if you get COVID-19.
The vaccines train your immune system to recognise and clear out the virus, before it makes you seriously ill. Your body’s immune system builds this protection over time. You are fully protected 7 to 14 days after your second dose.
The virus that causes COVID-19 (called SARS-CoV-2) has spikes of protein on each viral particle. These spike proteins allow the virus to attach to cells and cause disease.
The vaccines help the body to:
- recognise these spike proteins as a threat
- fight the coronavirus that has these proteins.
*This information is sourced from the health.gov.au*
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