Currently, the need for vaccines is increasing as the number of COVID-19 cases increases. However, many of our people are still reluctant to follow vaccinations.
There are various reasons and reasons why people are reluctant to get vaccinated including negative rumors about vaccines that can cause death, and other causes. But in fact vaccines have a lot of health benefits for the human body.
Vaccines are useful for protecting the body from getting sick from the COVID-19 virus by generating or stimulating specific immunity in the body. Reporting from alodokter.com there are three benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine, including:
1. Reducing the number of illness and death due to covid-19
Vaccination can trigger the body's immune system to fight the corona virus that enters the body. If someone who has been vaccinated but still has the Covid-19 virus, the vaccine can prevent more severe symptoms and complications.
2. Encourage the formation of herd immunity
A person who gets vaccinated can also protect and prevent people around him from contracting the Covid-19 virus, especially groups who are at high risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus, such as the elderly. This allows the transmission of the corona virus to be small considering that someone who has been vaccinated will encourage the body to form herd immunity in society. Thus, people who cannot get the vaccine, such as the elderly, toddlers, or people with autoimmune diseases, can get protection from the people around them.
However, a minimum of 70% of the total population in the country is required to achieve herd immunity.
3. Minimize economic and social impacts
Not only in the health sector, the benefits of vaccines can also be felt in the economic and social fields. If most people already have good immunity to fight the Covid-19 disease, social and economic activities will run as usual.
So, by giving vaccines we provide the best protection against various types of diseases that can attack our bodies anytime and anywhere. Because vaccines provide good immunity and are able to prevent and kill the course of viral diseases.