21 December 2020, 9:53 am EST By After a year of quarantining and not being able to see our friends in person, a year of masks and maskne, and a year of uncertainties, the COVID-19 vaccine is finally here and will be rolling out sooner than later, giving the public some glimmer of hope that the end is here and we can go back to how things were pre-coronavirus. Nevertheless, would things really go back to how they were? What happens after we receive the COVID-19 vaccine? Why Masks are Still Important Before the general public can receive the vaccine shots, most governments, including the United States, are planning to have the frontliners get the dosages first, especially as they are most vulnerable to getting the disease.