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Can you still get pneumonia even after getting the vaccine?
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Yes: The Pneumovax only lowers the risk to a particular organism causing pneumonia ( that is strep pneumonia) you can still get infected with other germs and even variants to the strep germ.
Answered 1/19/2020
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