Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
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Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
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Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#3Many people will try to use being vaccinated as an excuse to stop wearing masks. That isn't going to go well, if they can still be spreaders.
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#4The analogy I like to use is shoes. We wear shoes and walk in muddy patches. Your feet are fine. But wherever you go, you shed the mud.
Now imagine the mud is the virus. Shoes are antibodies (vaccine).
Not an exact comparison, but helps explain.
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#5The analogy I like to use is shoes. We wear shoes and walk in muddy patches. Your feet are fine. But wherever you go, you shed the mud. Now imagine the mud is the virus. Shoes are antibodies (vaccine). Not an exact comparison, but helps explain.
Does the time during which you are contagious change if you are vaccinated?
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#6I would expect once you get your vaccination this to be a non-issue. Like any other viruses that I'm vaccinated against, if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I mean isn't that the whole purpose of a vaccine?
Also I do understand that is only 90% efficacy, which means if I am among the unlucky 10% then I'll become infected and become both a spreader and most likely develop the disease.
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#7The analogy I like to use is shoes. We wear shoes and walk in muddy patches. Your feet are fine. But wherever you go, you shed the mud. Now imagine the mud is the virus. Shoes are antibodies (vaccine). Not an exact comparison, but helps explain.
If the vaccine is only useful for reducing COVID severity and doesn't help prevent spread, then I see no reason why it should be required for anyone for whom an infection is unlikely to result in hospitalization, i.e. anyone outside the well known high risk groups.
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#8I would expect once you get your vaccination this to be a non-issue. Like any other viruses that I'm vaccinated against, if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I mean isn't that the whole purpose of a vaccine? Also I do understand that is only 90% efficacy, which means if I am among the unlucky 10% then I'll become infected and become both a spreader and most likely develop t…
I'd be very interested in getting vaccinated against the virus once it's been released.
I'd prefer, however, to just get the vaccine so that if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I wish they'd make an option (perhaps at a significantly higher cost) so that you can get the vaccine injection without miscellaneous non-vaccine compounds injected in the solution as well.
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#9I would expect once you get your vaccination this to be a non-issue. Like any other viruses that I'm vaccinated against, if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I mean isn't that the whole purpose of a vaccine? Also I do understand that is only 90% efficacy, which means if I am among the unlucky 10% then I'll become infected and become both a spreader and most likely develop t…
Until now the line I have kept hearing is that there is no such thing as herd immunity except that which is realized through universal immunization.
Now that we're not sure the vaccine will actually work in this way, the new line of reasoning is "well it's just supposed to protect you individually from the disease, not stop it from spreading."
Re: Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination
#10I hate to be that person, but I'm personally more worried about the virus mutating under the increased selection pressure. We only defeated polio with a >99% effective vaccine, and the research for this vaccine isn't even available.