00:00I hope people understand that breakthrough infections does not mean that the vaccine did
00:04not work. And if we can explain that for a second, the analogy I like to use is a raincoat,
00:10right? If I'm walking through in a rainstorm, a raincoat does a fantastic job. If I jump into a
00:15pool of water, it's not going to keep me dry, right? So when we're talking about the vaccine,
00:21the vaccine is not a shield that prevents someone from being able to cough into your face, right?
00:26It's not some imaginary border. What a vaccine does is to say, I am going to prepare your body
00:33to give you this blueprint that if you see this piece of protein, so when we're talking about the
00:39mRNA vaccines in general, what they do is they teach your body how to recognize the coat of the virus,
00:46right? Just a little piece of the virus. And so the idea behind a vaccine is that if someone does
00:53cough into your face and this virus gains entrance into your body, that when your immune system
00:59recognizes this coat, immediately it starts to fight off that virus so it can't replicate to high,
01:05high numbers. Typically on a normal infection, it takes your body about five days to fully ramp up
01:11with an immune response. And with COVID-19, if you're waiting five days before your immune
01:16response is ready, you're more likely to be in my hospital with a breathing tube because it's
01:22overwhelming of your system. So when people say, oh, I had the vaccine and I got infected anyway,
01:30it's one of those things of the vaccine, you got infected, but the vaccine literally saw the virus
01:36and tried to kill off as many of those viruses before it overwhelmed your system to the point that
01:41you can talk to me and say, I got the vaccine and I still got infected. That's the difference.
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