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Vaccination is in large part about beating the epidemic, i.e. the population-scale prevalence of the pathogen, by preventing most of the infections and therefor
by cossatot 5y ago
Vaccination is in large part about beating the epidemic, i.e. the population-scale prevalence of the pathogen, by preventing most of the infections and therefore disease transmission. This pill is about treating disease symptoms, but while doing nothing to limit disease spread.
So while on a personal level, there may not be dramatic differences in death rates etc., on a population level the differences are huge.
- orangepurple 5y agoIncorrect, mRNA COVID vaccination is about reducing symptoms in infected patients. It does absolutely nothing to slow down or stop the spread of COVID.
- thinkcontext 5y agoThis is one of the most persistent pieces of misinformation I've seen, especially in the face of clear data. The reduction in transmission rate for the vaccinated is 89%. Even for someone with a breakthrough infection of the more contagious Delta variant being vaccinated means a 63% reduction. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-likely-are-you-to-spread-covid-19-if-youre-vaccinated/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-l...
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- orangepurple 5y agoYou are correct, it seems, if this trial is done correctly. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v...
- Izkata 5y agoIt's become reflexive whenever people claim it stops transmission because all evidence for it is very very recent, while the claim of stopping transmission started to be used with authority as early as Feb 2021 with absolutely no evidence. Not even Pfizer's press release in 2020 tried to claim they even researched it, let alone had a conclusion, despite people nowadays claiming otherwise.