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> they aren't preventing the spread. > less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta I don't see these as contradictory.
by rtsil 5y ago
> they aren't preventing the spread.
> less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta
I don't see these as contradictory. Vaccines are more effective against transmissions, yet vaccines don't slow down transmissions in a significative way. As per the article:
> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.
> A reduction was also observed in people vaccinated with the jab made by US company Pfizer and German firm BioNTech. The risk of spreading the Delta infection soon after vaccination with that jab was 42%, but increased to 58% with time.
Fully agree on the mask though. Plus social distancing, if possible.
- yesbut 5y agoThe study contradicts his assumptions so he is unable to take this new information and update preexisting beliefs. Or he didn't read the new study. A bunch of people are living in denial.
- gzer0 5y agoIt seems you are using a tactic of obfuscation and confusion to derail the conversation. Seems like you’ve successfully done just that.
- yesbut 5y agotell that to the study author's institutions then: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA USA Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA Turner Fenton Secondary School, Brampton, ON Canada