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Yes, people who’ve had Covid-19 can still benefit from the vaccine

Pharmacist Khanh Pham calls a person over before injecting them with the Covid-19 vaccine at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California. | Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Immunologists explain why.

In the United States, there have been 17 million reported cases of Covid-19 — about 5 percent of the population. Millions more have been infected and either did not get tested or didn’t have symptoms to begin with.

Vaccines are slowly rolling out — first to front-line health care and high-risk people, and next, likely to other essential workers, followed by people ages 65 and older and those with preexisting conditions.

But it’s reasonable to ask, given that there are well over 100 million people in these groups and not nearly enough vaccine supply for them right away: Should people who’ve already had Covid-19