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In reply to the discussion: 'I'm sorry, but it's too late' Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients [View all]wnylib
(21,347 posts)treatment because all the vaccines do is "teach" the immune system who the enrmy is in order to build up a reserve army of trained cells in advance, in order to mount an immediate counter attack if the virus shows up.
When an unvaccinated person gets infected, the immune system does not need a vaccine to tell it who the enemy is. It already knows as soon as it gets "attacked" (infected) and then starts building up an army of counter attack cells. At that point, the vaccine has nothing to offer except info about who the enemy is, which the immune system has already just discovered.
Also, the mRNA vaccines require 2 doses 3 weeks apart to be effective in teaching the immune system what it already knows once a person is infected.
The vaccines don't create antibodies. They just tell the immune system what to make antibodies for and then, with that information, the immune system makes the antibodies.
The fact that infected people ask for vaccination AFTER they have been infected shows that they don't understand what vaccines do, which might explain why some of them don't get vaccinated in advance of getting sick. They apparently think that vaccines are medicine when vaccines are only a preventative that has to be done in advance.