Vaccines: How They Work & Help
Getting vaccinated is one of many steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.
- Getting the COVID-19 vaccine will help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.
- Getting vaccinated yourself will also protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
- COVID-19 vaccination will help protect you by creating an antibody response without having to experience sickness.
- Vaccines will work with your immune system so it will be ready to fight the virus if you are exposed.
There are currently three (3) approved vaccines in mass production & being distributed around the U.S.:
| Vaccines | Dosing | Efficacy |
Potential Side
Effects |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Pfizer
(more info) |
Two doses, delivered three weeks apart | 95% effective at preventing serious illness | Injection-site pain, fatigue, headaches, chills |
|
Moderna
(more info) |
Two doses, delivered four weeks apart | 94.1% effective at preventing serious illness | Injection-site pain, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain, headaches, chills |
|
Johnson & Johnson
(more info) |
One-dose |
86% effective at preventing serious illness | Injection-site pain, headache, and flu-like symptoms |
For more detailed information, please visit https://covidlink.maryland.gov/content/vaccine/. ¿Hablas español?
Get your vaccine today.