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No, vaccine side effects don’t tell you how well your immune system will protect you from COVID-19It's normal for different people to mount stronger or weaker immune responses to a vaccine, but post-shot side effects won't tell you which you are. Robert Finberg is a physician who specializes in infectious diseases and immunology at the Medical School at the University of Massachusetts. He explains how this perception doesn’t match the reality of how vaccines work.
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SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A genetic, epidemiological, and evolutionary perspectiveIn less than five months, COVID-19 has spread from a small focus in Wuhan, China, to more than 5 million people in almost every country in the world, dominating the concern of most governments and public health systems. The social and political distresses caused by this epidemic will certainly impact our world for a long time to come. Here, we synthesize lessons from a range of scientific perspectives rooted in epidemiology, virology, genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology so as to provide perspective on how this pandemic started, how it is developing, and how best we can stop it.