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> This study specifically, shows that you can be vaccinated and get it. You will have fewer symptoms, but still shed just as much virus. no. the study shows th
by weaksauce 3y ago
> This study specifically, shows that you can be vaccinated and get it. You will have fewer symptoms, but still shed just as much virus.
no. the study shows that the vaccine status doesn't change how much you shed for a given level of symptoms. aka high symptomatic => high viral shed. lowly symptomatic => low viral shed.
from the actual pre-print's[0] abstract:
> We further found that levels of exhaled viral RNA increased with self-rated symptom-severity, though individual variation was high. Levels of exhaled viral RNA did not differ across age, sex, time of day, vaccination status or viral variant.
0. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.06.23295138v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.06.23295138v...
- taeric 3y agoApologies, that is inline with what I meant. You will shed proportional to your level of symptoms. If you were vaccinated and still get heavily sick, you will still shed as any other heavily sick person. That said, the caveat of "though individual variation was high" makes me curious if some of the correlation to self-rated symptom goes away when you only look at something like vaccination status.