FAQ: What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine COVID-19 vaccine (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (Source: Jessica Hill) By Destinee Patterson | December 14, 2020 at 10:00 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 10:19 PM SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - As the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the ArkLaTex on Monday, KSLA reporter Destinee Patterson sat down, via Zoom, with Dr. Joseph Bocchini, director of Children Health Services for the Willis-Knighton Health System RAW INTERVIEW: FAQ with Dr. Bocchini First of all, does this vaccine actually prevent you from getting the virus? We really don’t know that yet. We know that the vaccine prevents us from developing disease caused by COVID-19. But the studies that are available so far, did not test to see whether a person who’s vaccinated, who does not show symptoms can carry the virus. Additional studies are being done to evaluate that possibility. Because of that, even though we know that the vaccine prevents 95% of symptomatic infections, we’re still recommending that people who are vaccinated continued to follow the mitigation strategies that we have requested: mask wearing, social distancing, small groups meeting together until we know more about that.