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I find it a bit weird that there are fewer asymptomatic cases with this vaccine? Is it somehow increasing the immune response to COVID-19?
by andy_ppp 6y ago
I find it a bit weird that there are fewer asymptomatic cases with this vaccine? Is it somehow increasing the immune response to COVID-19?
- foota 6y agoMaybe the vaccine happens to work more effectively in people that would otherwise have had an asymptomatic infection?
- twic 6y agoThe whole purpose of the vaccine is to increase the immune response to COVID-19.
- SamBam 6y agoThat's exactly what a vaccine, any vaccine, does. A vaccine is something that primes the immune system, so that when the real virus enters the body it is attacked and destroyed quickly. This means that the virus can never start multiplying in the body and shedding to other people. I don't believe there is any modern vaccine that doesn't reduce or eliminate asymptomatic spreading of the disease.
- mssundaram 6y agoWhooping cough. That vaccine causes suppressed symptoms and people can unknowingly spread the bacteria
- SamBam 6y agoThat's a good point. However, I believe that it is different between bacteria and viruses. From my understanding of the whooping cough studies, they found that some vaccinated baboons who were subsequently infected still had high levels of pertussis bacteria after five weeks. These bacteria couldn't cause widespread infections in the host, but had seemingly found pockets where they were safe from the immune system. A virus, however, can't find a "safe pocket" away from the immune system in which to survive and multiply. It needs to use the body's own cells and machinery to do so, and (outside of the blood-brain barriers) there aren't cells hidden from the immune system.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoThe whole concept of 'asymptomatic cases' is dubious to begin with, most likely promoted to increase belief in PCR tests and the whole "new normal" environment.