to get a vaccine
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2.8
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ə ˈvæksin/
:
vacunarse
- I don't know who your friends and in-laws talk to, but at least in my experience as a US citizen, I've never gotten a vaccine without giving consent.
- get a vaccine to prevent
- going to get a vaccine
Anyone who wants a vaccine gets a vaccine at scale.
- Anyone who wants a vaccine gets a vaccine at scale.
- And I just, I, I, I knew that we'd got a vaccine for Ebola.
- That said, I am choosing to get a vaccine.
- I think we'll get a vaccine then I want to get to that next last one Soul Cycle.
- And this really protects me if we go down that sort of more worst case scenario where we don't get a vaccine soon enough and all we can rely on is testing.
- Like doctors who want you to get a vaccine are trustable people and bankers who want you to take out a loan are also trustable people.
- Like, wow, a breakthrough, sure, but when it comes to you got a vaccine and you still get COVID, that's a breakthrough.
- So, so the so I would get a A vaccine before I'm even exposed to COVID, but I get a monoclonal antibody treatment afterwards.
Examples
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And if I get a vaccine, what was once said to be safe has been recalled for blood clots.
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And this really protects me if we go down that sort of more worst case scenario where we don't get a vaccine soon enough and all we can rely on is testing.
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I remember getting a vaccine when I was five, and being scared.
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Anyone who wants a vaccine gets a vaccine at scale.
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You do realize that one or more of those things can (and probably will) happen to you, whether you get a vaccine or not?
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No, no, I went and got a vaccine, pneumonia vaccine in.
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Also, children don't suddenly get autism at age 7 after getting a vaccine.
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Like, wow, a breakthrough, sure, but when it comes to you got a vaccine and you still get COVID, that's a breakthrough.
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We've now got a vaccine that we think will work in a preventative way, but for those who are alread incubating the disease...
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He decided to get a vaccine to protect himself from the flu this winter.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to receive a vaccination' is directly and transparently derived from 'get' (to receive/obtain) + 'vaccine' (a substance that induces immunity); the article 'a' does not alter the compositional meaning. This straightforward verb + object construction is common across languages and would be immediately understandable to an average B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase get a vaccine may come from a story about a doctor long ago who used a disease from cows to protect people from smallpox. Because the word vaccine started from a word for 'cow', it came to mean a treatment that teaches the body to 'protect' against disease, so to get a vaccine is to receive that protective shot.