
22/11/2022
Vaccination not only reduces the risk of short- and long-term health complications from COVID-19, but it also slows the spread of the disease by preventing it from being passed onto others that are at high-risk for severe COVID-19 illness.
Also, because vaccines reduce the likelihood of transmission of the virus, it also reduces the chance for the virus to mutate into variants which might be more infectious or resistant to vaccines. The reduction in infections overall leads to fewer hospitalizations and deaths in the community and slows the emergence of new coronavirus variants such as the omicron variant.