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How is this a helpful conclusion? Getting disease-induced immunity only happens after you get a disease that will quite possibly kill or, if you’re younger, per
by elil17 5y ago
How is this a helpful conclusion? Getting disease-induced immunity only happens after you get a disease that will quite possibly kill or, if you’re younger, permanently disable you.
Regular vaccination poses no such risk.
The take home message should be clear: getting a vaccine is essential to staying safe, especially if you haven’t previously been infected. Even if you have been previously infected, the vaccine will reduce the chance that you get sick and pass the disease on to others.
- peteradio 5y ago> the vaccine will reduce the chance that you get sick and pass the disease on to others. You cannot treat that as a forgone conclusion that is the whole point of studies like this. As this study states, hazard ratio does not depend on vaccination after someone has recovered.
- cdolan 5y agoWhere does it say the vaccine has a measurable effect upon stopping transmission? Recent news would say the exact opposite statement
- maxerickson 5y agoThe data is super thin on that (we don't know very much about people that are getting sick and not seeking care). This article discusses an analysis of household transmission in Denmark. It was much higher in households with Omicron cases, but lower (56% lower) among boosted individuals compared to two dose vaccination: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-cannot-escape-t-cells-boosters-protect-households-omicron-2021-12-29/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... That's a pretty big reduction.
- parkingrift 5y agoHelpful? This is a scientific study.