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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Doctors connected Monday nighttime took clip to reply the questions of News4Jax viewers and code immoderate concerns they mightiness person had astir getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

“The astir communal questions we’re getting tonight, our No. 1: Are you inactive protected against the delta variant if you’ve been vaccinated?” said Dr. Andrew Martin. “And the reply to that seems to beryllium yes. Protection seems to beryllium a small little than it was against different variants, inactive highly protected.”

In immoderate instances, the vaccine doesn’t forestall infection, but doctors judge it presents the severity of cases starring to infirmary stays oregon death.

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Jennifer Hartley said she and her hubby are some vaccinated, but some got sick and went to their doctor.

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“I told them I was afloat vaccinated. So they said, ‘We’re gonna bash a COVID trial anyway.’ And I was truly shocked erstwhile the doc came successful and said I had tested positive,” Hartley said.

Hartley said she is gladsome she got vaccinated.

Two of the doctors that took calls from viewers Monday nighttime said galore tin related to their concerns. They person children who are heading backmost to the classroom.

“I’m a aesculapian nonrecreational and besides a mom,” said Dr. Kathleen Dumitru, an exigency aesculapian specialist. “I’m sending my children backmost to schoolhouse a small spot reluctantly but they’ve got to beryllium there. They’ve got to get backmost to school, they’ve got to learn. And it does interest me.”

“This is conscionable the hardest determination making I deliberation arsenic a genitor that I’ve ever had to do,” said Dr. Jennifer Cowart, an interior medicine specialist. “Trying to equilibrium the intelligence wellness and and learning facet versus going to schoolhouse astatine the tallness of this surge with much kids successful the infirmary than we’ve ever seen.”

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Kent Justice co-anchors News4Jax's 5 p.m., 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts weeknights and reports connected authorities and politics. He besides hosts "This Week successful Jacksonville," Channel 4's blistery topics and authorities nationalist affairs amusement each Sunday greeting astatine 9 a.m.