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> were told prevents us from getting sick I never heard this. I belive many people jumped to this conclusion on their own. Because they associate vaccination w

> were told prevents us from getting sick I never heard this. I belive many people jumped to this conclusion on their own. Because they associate vaccination with immunization.

Sevii 5y ago
People believe this because most vaccines are sterilizing. If you get the measles vaccine you can't get measles again ever. The Covid and flu vaccines don't work that way.
- javagram 5y ago
  Re: measles, this isn’t necessarily the case. Breakthrough infections have been known and discussed before.[0] The measles vaccine efficacy is estimated at 97% implying 3% chance of a breakthrough. However, Covid-19 vaccine efficacy against infection was originally 93-95% but has dropped to 60% or less against the Delta variant. A lot of discussion seems to ignore this. To get back to the 90% plus efficacy we’ll need the vaccine to be re-tuned against delta, which no one seems in a rush to do for some reason… [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31039835/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31039835/ “In an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, breakthrough infections (i.e. infections in individuals with a history of vaccination) were common. [. . .] Sixteen of 28 confirmed cases of measles in this outbreak were breakthrough infections.”
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- mdp2021 5y ago
  Can I interest you in Katherine J. Wu (The Atlantic) - We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines // Complete protection against infection has long been hailed as the holy grail of vaccination. It might simply be unachievable. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/sterilizing-immunity-myth-covid-19-vaccines/620023/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...