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Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. It protects you from serious illness and death if/when you get it. The whole transmission protection meme ne
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. It protects you from serious illness and death if/when you get it. The whole transmission protection meme needs to die.
It has a trivial effect at the population level wrt the spread of covid.
- ceejayoz 5y ago> Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. This is false. It does not stop transmission. It does reduce it. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/the-new-omicron-subvariant-is-more-contagious-but-vaccinated-people-are-less-likely-to-spread-it-study-finds.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/the-new-omicron-subvariant-i...
- EdwardDiego 5y agoIt does reduce transmission, I was reading a research paper out of the UK, and while vaccinated people who got infected hit the same peak viral load as someone unvaccinated, they were at the peak viral load for a far shorter period of time. I can try to locate the link if you're interested.
- throwaway6532 5y agoIt doesn't make transmission impossible. It makes it less probable, which most definitely does reduce transmission. To say "Vaccination doesn't reduce transmission" is to say "Vaccination has no effect on the R value". It clearly does.