It's more of a prophylactic like taking Malarone or Doxycycline to prevent malaria.
It usually kills it before it takes root, or keeps it from getting bad.
The Covid Vaccines seem to work more like that than a common vax such as measles. Got measles vax. Been around people with measles. Didn't get measles.
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