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Vaccines: How They Work & Help

Getting vaccinated is one of many steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.

  • Getting the COVID-19 vaccine will help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.
  • Getting vaccinated yourself will also protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
  • COVID-19 vaccination will help protect you by creating an antibody response without having to experience sickness.
  • Vaccines will work with your immune system so it will be ready to fight the virus if you are exposed.

There are currently three (3) approved vaccines in mass production & being distributed around the U.S.:

Vaccines Dosing Efficacy Potential Side
Effects
Pfizer
(more info)
Two doses, delivered three weeks apart 95% effective at preventing serious illness Injection-site pain, fatigue, headaches, chills
Moderna
(more info)
Two doses, delivered four weeks apart 94.1% effective at preventing serious illness Injection-site pain, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain, headaches, chills
Johnson & Johnson
(more info)

One-dose

86% effective at preventing serious illness Injection-site pain, headache, and flu-like symptoms

For more detailed information, please visit https://covidlink.maryland.gov/content/vaccine/. ¿Hablas español?

Get your vaccine today.