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If I smear some virus on you, you are not infected. An infection is defined by the growth of a pathogen, not its mere presence. When researchers look for an inf
by standardUser 5y ago
If I smear some virus on you, you are not infected. An infection is defined by the growth of a pathogen, not its mere presence. When researchers look for an infection, as described in this study, they do not find an infection in most cases, hence the conclusion that infections are not taking hold and the vaccine is preventing an infection.
This entire argument feels pedantic and is based on the idea that the researchers are just playing fast and loose with words.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection#Classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection#Classification "The word infection can denote any presence of a particular pathogen at all (no matter how little) but also is often used in a sense implying a clinically apparent infection (in other words, a case of infectious disease).This fact occasionally creates some ambiguity or prompts some usage discussion; to get around this it is common for health professionals to speak of colonization (rather than infection) when they mean that some of the pathogens are present but that no clinically apparent infection (no disease) is present. "