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It's especially odd considering that the vaccines don't make any claims about their effectiveness at reducing transmission of the disease.
by tengbretson 6y ago
It's especially odd considering that the vaccines don't make any claims about their effectiveness at reducing transmission of the disease.
- TameAntelope 6y agoA vaccine isn't for the customer's benefit, it's for the worker's benefit (and society generally, because you can't be a profitable business if society is still shut down). If the worker takes fewer overall sick days because they've been vaccinated against the virus, the company benefits by having a more stable workforce than if employees were taking time off to naturally recover from infection. There's also a legal liability question here -- could an employee sue their employer if they contract COVID-19 at the workplace? I don't think that's been decided conclusively yet. And for what it's worth, scientists are trying to figure out what kind of vaccine we have -- we just don't know yet, because of how fast this vaccine was developed. Do we have a "reduce symptoms so people survive the disease" vaccine or do we have a "completely block infection" vaccine? The latter would indeed hamper infection. This article discusses more: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-19-vaccines-transmission.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-...
- BurningFrog 6y agoThere hasn't been time to test that yet. But my amateur understanding is that while there are vaccines that don't fully eliminate transmission, they all do it to some degree, and on average the numbers are quite good. Happy to be corrected by someone with actual knowledge!