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Vaccines are supposed to help you fight the virus, not prevent infection. That was never the promise. Effectiveness is measured through reducing probability of

• landemva 5y ago
  This is the new speak definition of vaccine. Back when words had meaning, the smallpox and polio vaccines wiped those out because those vaccines created immunity in the individuals. Now vaccine is akin to airbag in a car ... maybe reduces the individual harm but the individual still gets hit.
• disambiguation 5y ago
  > That was never the promise https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronavirus-vaccine-prevent-transmissions-2020-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav... > Moderna's chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, said last month that he believed it was likely the vaccine would prevent transmission but warned that there was not yet "sufficient evidence" of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/health/coronavirus-vaccine-walensky.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/health/coronavirus-vaccin... > The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, suggesting that people who are vaccinated against the coronavirus never become infected or transmit the virus to others. They had a stance, and they walked it back