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Vaccination can still be helpful to the immune-compromised people around you (like me) even if you’re hale and hearty yourself. If I can catch flu or Covid a c
by incangold 4y ago
Vaccination can still be helpful to the immune-compromised people around you (like me) even if you’re hale and hearty yourself.
If I can catch flu or Covid a couple fewer times over a lifetime because the healthier people around me were vaccinated, or masked, or installed better ventilation, that would likely improve my life quite a bit.
(I say this with no judgement, just to raise awareness of something I assume you haven’t considered, and I hadn’t much thought about myself before I was personally affected)
- landemva 4y agoCDC debunked the idea that covid shots slow transmission. Viral load is the same. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm More readable analysis by Johns Hopkins said, "vaccinated people infected with the delta variant can carry detectable viral loads similar to those of people who are unvaccinated". https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/new-data-on-covid-19-transmission-by-vaccinated-individuals https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/new-data-on-covid-19-trans...
- grey-area 4y agoThey slow transmission by reducing the infection rate