If You Wait to Get Vaccinated, You Run This Risk, Dr. Fauci Says - Best Life

And while White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, has said that this is "nothing but good news," he warns that having those vaccines at our fingertips is simply not enough.

While skeptics have bristled at the quick pace of the COVID vaccines’ development, Fauci cautioned in a recent interview with Savannah Guthrie that vaccine hesitancy could have dire consequences.

"This is a race, Savannah, between the virus and getting vaccines into people," Fauci explained.

The other 53 percent plan to either "wait and see" how the vaccine is working first (31 percent), get it only if required (7 percent), or refuse the vaccine entirely (13 percent).

Read on for more essential information about COVID vaccines, and for an incentive to get vaccinated that will make you smile, Dr.

“Because mRNA vaccines are not using a live virus, there is no potential risk of being infected with the condition,” she explained in a December article for Forbes.

“Another benefit of mRNA vaccines is effectiveness.

Finally, mRNA vaccines are quicker and easier to produce than traditional vaccines, because they are produced in a laboratory instead of in an egg or other mammalian cell.

Of his own vaccination experience, Fauci told CNN’s Dana Bash, "The only thing I had was maybe six to 10 hours following the vaccine I felt a little bit of an ache in my arm that lasted maybe 24 hours, a little bit more, then went away, and completely other than that I felt no other deleterious type of effects." And for up-to-date vaccine news from Pfizer's CEO, This Is How Often You'll Need a COVID Vaccine.

Fauci has said that we reach herd immunity—the point at which enough people are immune to COVID that cases have difficulty spreading through the community—once 75 to 85 percent of the population has either become vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19.

However, according to a 2010 census, children make up 24 percent of the American population and are largely ineligible for the vaccine at present (the Moderna vaccine is approved for those 16 and up, while Pfizer is only available to adults).

And when you're ready to make your vaccination plans, The CDC Says Don't Do This With the Second Dose of Your COVID Vaccine.