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# Covid Variants
But I get it. Nobody likes being ill. Nobody likes getting shots. But getting your vaccination is a matter of personal and public safety. You're not only putting your own life at risk by not getting the vaccine, you're also risking the community by being a potential host for a more dangerous variant of Covid. The super-contagious delta variant from India is now spreading throughout the world. It's only going to get worse the more people that put off getting vaccinated.
-According to the CDC, [only 66% of American adults are vaccinated](https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations). Dr. Anthony Fauci's guess was that 70-85% of the entire US population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, but that was before the delta variant. It's likely higher now making it even more important for you to get vaccinated. If you still think "waiting to see what happens" is the safer bet, consider that you might catch Covid and die while waiting. It's not clever or safer. You're just playing Russian roulette with a dangerous virus.
+According to the CDC, [only 66% of American adults are vaccinated](https://web.archive.org/web/20210628235004if_/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations). Dr. Anthony Fauci's guess was that 70-85% of the entire US population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, but that was before the delta variant. It's likely higher now making it even more important for you to get vaccinated. If you still think "waiting to see what happens" is the safer bet, consider that you might catch Covid and die while waiting. It's not clever or safer. You're just playing Russian roulette with a dangerous virus.
# Safety Concerns
Many people have heard that the vaccine is experimental, risky, and that people have died from it. So let me address those concerns directly.
-The Covid-19 vaccines are new mRNA vaccines. mRNA vaccines do not contain the virus as other vaccines do. mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as not belonging in the body and makes antibodies for it. Then you're protected against Covid-19 without ever catching it. As the [CDC website](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html) explains, these vaccines are new, but they are not unknown. Researchers have been studying mRNA vaccines for decades.
+The Covid-19 vaccines are new mRNA vaccines. mRNA vaccines do not contain the virus as other vaccines do. mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as not belonging in the body and makes antibodies for it. Then you're protected against Covid-19 without ever catching it. As the [CDC website](https://web.archive.org/web/20210628212119if_/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html) explains, these vaccines are new, but they are not unknown. Researchers have been studying mRNA vaccines for decades.
The vaccines available to the public have gone through months of trials being tested on hundreds of thousands of people with no indication that they are unsafe. Hundreds of millions more have been fully vaccinated since, still with no indication that the vaccines are unsafe.