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>Also vaccinated people can still catch and transmit covid, though they are not going to experience severe symptoms. This is stated with far too much confidenc
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>Also vaccinated people can still catch and transmit covid, though they are not going to experience severe symptoms.
This is stated with far too much confidence. It may be true that vaccinated individuals can still transmit COVID. It may also be true that they can't. We don't know yet.
- gerbal 6y agoYou are correct, I've edited my comment to be appropriately hedged
- MaxDPS 6y agoIsn’t this a fact though (just not in the way OP meant)? The current vaccines have a ~90% success rate. That means that 1/10 people might still get COVID-19 and possibly transmit it.
- ghaff 6y agoThe vaccine trials did not test whether people who did not get COVID-19 might nonetheless have been infectious. The assumption is that it reduces or even eliminates infectiousness but that hasn't actually been tested for AFAIK.
- 0xffff2 6y agoThe statement as originally written implies that all people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease. That may be true, but it's unlikely and we don't have enough data to say one way or the other yet.