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Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.

I'm hoping when we have the highest risk and care givers vaccinated and see the rates amongst them drop.

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.

A lot of Americans have already stopped complying with public health recommendations. Or they never put on a mask to begin with. It's like a teacher who tells a class to line up so they can be dismissed but someone doesn't go along and drags out the whole process.

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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Can someone help me understand the difference between this and other vaccines? From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity? I just do not understand how vaccines work. Would love a (peer-reviewed) source or sources I could read to brush up. This is not a political o…

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Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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Can someone help me understand the difference between this and other vaccines? From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity? I just do not understand how vaccines work. Would love a (peer-reviewed) source or sources I could read to brush up. This is not a political o…

Vaccines never quite prevent infection. What they do is give the immune system a head start so they can overtake the infection early. Hopefully early enough to prevent symptoms, and ideally early enough to prevent transmission.

But just how early the immune system can win will depend on the strength on the immune reaction and the specifics of the virus. So for this specific one we don’t yet know whether it’s early enough to prevent subsequent transmission.

For example if transmission would require coughing and you never develop a cough, then there probably won’t be much transmission. But the potential for pre-symptomatic transmission suggests that it won’t be that simple, and while in theory this should reduce transmission it probably won’t eliminate it entirely.

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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Can someone help me understand the difference between this and other vaccines? From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity? I just do not understand how vaccines work. Would love a (peer-reviewed) source or sources I could read to brush up. This is not a political o…

> Why am I being downvoted for seeking knowledge?

Because people are assholes.

As for the rest, I haven't really gotten a straight answer on the vaccine. Seems there are people who say it is the best thing since slice bread, and others who say it will be about as useful as the yearly flu vaccine. No one actually knows.

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.

When children are vaccinated. It's not clear if the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, i.e., you are protected against the bug and also can't spread the disease, so most people who have children or are around children will ideally not take undue risks.

I'm not sure if under-16 cohorts' trials are underway already. If they are, and if children are going to be vaccinated before their next school term starts, then society as a whole may consider dropping the current precautions.

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.

Like 200 million

Re: 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated

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My Adblocker won’t let me load the submitted site. I wonder if it’s stats are better than Bloomberg’s?[0] Which shows US & global distribution, also claims over 22m Americans have been vaccinated [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

The Bloomberg number is _shots given_, so one person receiving two doses counts twice. The link above counts _number of people_ with at least one dose.
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