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>...fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in house

• jashmatthews 5y ago
  Vaccinated people don’t transmit as much, nor are they as likely to contract the virus. Current estimates are 85-90% of transmission in Germany involves someone unvaccinated https://rocs.hu-berlin.de/publication/maier-2021-germany/ https://rocs.hu-berlin.de/publication/maier-2021-germany/
• orblivion 5y ago
  * Chance of catching it? * Peak viral load, GIVEN catching it? * Duration of peak viral load, GIVEN catching it? * Severe disease, GIVEN catching it? * Hospital stay, GIVEN catching it? * Death, GIVEN catching it? There are many relevant parameters that the vaccines might affect. And the vaccinated people have a few parameters: number of shots, time since last shot, age, etc. People seem to focus on one or two of these questions at a time. From your link, actually, related to duration: "Fully vaccinated individuals with delta variant infection had a faster (posterior probability >0·84) mean rate of viral load decline (0·95 log10 copies per mL per day) than did unvaccinated individuals with pre-alpha (0·69), alpha (0·82), or delta (0·79) variant infections." Clearly it's not going to stop transmission, but it could slow it down. People on both sides of this issue seem to undervalue partial measures and tradeoffs.