The biggest benefit seems to be that the immune system is primed in at least some fashion; it knows what to look for, and it has readily available tools that should be effective. It doesn’t have to take a day or a week to try random things before it finally discovers a particularly effective antibody and gets the production chain ramped up to start a proper immune response.
Instead, your immune system will very quickly get a signal it understands as bad and can immediately start ramping up when it does detect the virus.
Keep in mind that the commercial vaccines don’t have 100% success rate in that some people still get sick, but the ‘priming’ of the immune response is still there. I believe this is why the death rate / severe complications rate is effectively zero for immunized patients, even though it’s possible to get sick.
(Again, my understanding. I would very much appreciate correction/clarifications here.)
My understanding is that it helps a lot.
The biggest benefit seems to be that the immune system is primed in at least some fashion; it knows what to look for, and it has readily available tools that should be effective. It doesn’t have to take a day or a week to try random things before it finally discovers a particularly effective antibody and gets the production chain ramped up to start a proper immune response.
Instead, your immune system will very quickly get a signal it understands as bad and can immediately start ramping up when it does detect the virus.
Keep in mind that the commercial vaccines don’t have 100% success rate in that some people still get sick, but the ‘priming’ of the immune response is still there. I believe this is why the death rate / severe complications rate is effectively zero for immunized patients, even though it’s possible to get sick.
(Again, my understanding. I would very much appreciate correction/clarifications here.)