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They also do reduce infection and transmission, just not completely prevent it all the time.
by metamet 5y ago
They also do reduce infection and transmission, just not completely prevent it all the time.
- jaywalk 5y agoThey definitely do not reduce transmission, at least not with the currently circulating variants: https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-similar-between-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
- Retric 5y agoThat doesn’t support your argument. Although vaccinated people with a breakthrough infection are much less likely to become severely ill than unvaccinated, the new study shows that they can be carrying similar amounts of virus and could potentially spread the virus to other people Could potentially spread is not the same as saying their equally likely to spread. Fewer infections and less severe cases both reduce transmission to the general population at least in the short term. Long term it may be that effectively everyone gets either COVID and or the vaccine.
- jaywalk 5y agoWhen I say they don't reduce transmission, I mean (and the article backs up) that an infected vaccinated person transmits the virus just as much as an infected unvaccinated person. Probability of infection between the two groups is a different subject.
- Retric 5y agoThey specifically say: “Our study does not provide information on infectiousness.” That said, if people are equally infections while sick, but their sick for a shorter period then their less likely to infect others.