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Vaccines make people who are vaccinated almost entirely immune. The current outbreak is a plague of the unvaccinated largely
by FormerBandmate 5y ago
Vaccines make people who are vaccinated almost entirely immune. The current outbreak is a plague of the unvaccinated largely
- dude4you 5y agoNo, it does not. It only prevents serious cases. If vaccinations encourage new variants is a total different question. It is very possible. Evolutionary pressure is a bitch.
- orra 5y ago> No, it does not. It only prevents serious cases. That's not true either. Double vaccination completely prevents infection (even asymptomatic infection) in 50-70% of cases. See e.g. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/227713/coronavirus-infections-three-times-lower-double/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/227713/coronavirus-infection... > If vaccinations encourage new variants is a total different question. It is very possible. Evolutionary pressure is a bitch. Fewer infected people means fewer mutations. As to whether those fewer mutations spread better (thanks to selective pressure)? It's a legitimate question, but thankfully the answer appears to be the no, the opposite, thanks to the neutralising antibody response. See https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1425449905829601288 https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/142544990582960128...
- tunesmith 5y agoNot quite true. Vaccines protect people against the worst effects, but they're not as effective against infection. So a lot of unvaccinated people with the disease might have caught it from vaccinated people. (I'm pro-vaccination, I just don't like the practice of blaming it all on the unvaccinated people.)