Does the Vaccine Work?

With hospitals overrun and medical personnel stretched to the limit, the topic of vaccines rages on. Do these vaccines work as they are supposed to, or is it all for nothing?

We asked a few people if they think the shot helped them when they got Covid-19.

“I really do,” said Alex Mullins, who caught Covid at a company Christmas party and was scared for her life because of her asthma. “Especially being a little bit immunocompromised because I do have asthma. So that’s a respiratory thing obviously, and Covid is as well. So it’s very likely I would have been hospitalized if I didn’t have my vaccine. I’m feeling fine now, pretty much back to normal and going back to work. And everything’s pretty much the same as it was before.”

But some people are hesitant to get their shot like Scott Robbins, who held off originally. Experts have theorized that this may be a reason why the second and third waves sweep through the U.S.

“I originally held off,” Robbins said. “I was mostly wanting to get more information waiting for more time to go by, to see what kind of side effects could be possible.”

Others have been waiting to not only get their shots but also to get their kids vaccinated. Like Nicole Soleno, a single mother of two.

“I was exposed at work like four days after I got my booster,” Soleno said. “So I don’t think it had time to really do its thing. I brought it home, but with them, my youngest was down for maybe three days and my oldest had the sniffles.”

This has been a trying time for everyone, and some worry the vaccine doesn’t work. But the people we talked with thought it actually did help.