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"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death - they prevent it, but what they can'
by EB-Barrington 5y ago
"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death - they prevent it, but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission,"
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
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- shkkmo 5y agoPreventing transmission != reducing transmission rates. The vaccines absolutely do the later.
- ejb999 5y agoare you sure about that? - seems right now the most vaccinated states also seem to have the largest spike in cases - I agree the vaccine, at this point anyway, seems to be reducing deaths - but not sure I agree on transmission - seems like it it still spreading worse than before. And no, I am not an antivaxxer i I am triple vaxxed myself and work in the healthcare field.
- shkkmo 5y agoThe only real overlap right now is new england, places like the PNW have high vaccinations and low case rates. Regardless, there are so many factors that affect transmission, you can't easily learn much from geographic comparisons due to the impossibility of eliminating the confounds. However the science is clear, all else being equal, covid vaccines reduce transmission rates.
- jayrot 5y agoThis seems to be so hard for some to understand that it smacks of dis-ingenuity.
- NavinF 5y agoHmm did he mean that it doesn’t affect transmission (as in reduce R0) or that it literally can’t prevent transmission (R0 reduced, but still >>0)? The latter is trivially true. I’m guessing he said it anyway because it was intended for a different audience.
- tshaddox 5y agoI don’t think they literally reduce illness and death to zero, but just pretty close. I would assume they were using the same definition of “prevent” in both places in that sentence.