Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
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Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#2This interesting article was posted earlier by another user and quickly received 28 upvotes but was flagged, presumably for editorializing the title. Reposted without the editorializing. A reply to this comment with a link to the unpaywalled pdf would obviously be helpful for many readers.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#3If this article is correct I hope that it will get incorporated into public policy swiftly.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#4If this article is correct I hope that it will get incorporated into public policy swiftly.
The rhetoric has moved on to "prevents severe infection" as the reason you have to prove you've been vaccinated.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#5If this article is correct I hope that it will get incorporated into public policy swiftly.
Ego and the belief it could be used against them in campaigns this year will keep most politicians from allowing a change in public health policy due to the results in the paper. "We need more studies" likely will be how they proceed though there's a chance they'll simply try to discredit the authors and discourage anyone else from finding similar results.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#6This is completely anecdotal, but something interesting happened to me recently. My trainer, who is unvaccinated, got really sick one week. Lots of throwing up, high fever, headaches, just feeling awful in general. He tested negative for COVID multiple times.
After his sickness went away, we worked out together (I'm vaccinated and boosted). Two days later, he calls me to tell me he tested positive for COVID but barely feels anything, just has a slight cough. He tested positive for a week and half afterwards.
I didn't get sick whatsoever. I mean, maybe one day I had a little bit of nasal congestion, but it could have just been the cold weather or any number of things. My wife also did not get sick (but she's vaccinated as well).
I think it's too early to write off that vaccines don't prevent transmissibility or even getting the virus. The immunization effects of these vaccines are so unknown to us given that they're so new. This whole COVID-19 situation is so damn weird, and that's why a lot of people are admittedly very skeptical of everything.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#7This interesting article was posted earlier by another user and quickly received 28 upvotes but was flagged, presumably for editorializing the title. Reposted without the editorializing. A reply to this comment with a link to the unpaywalled pdf would obviously be helpful for many readers.
The link provides the full text. It's just a commentary essay, not a paper. The Lancet provides covid-related content for free. For example, I clicked the first link and got the full text of that particular reference at https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099...
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#8This interesting article was posted earlier by another user and quickly received 28 upvotes but was flagged, presumably for editorializing the title. Reposted without the editorializing. A reply to this comment with a link to the unpaywalled pdf would obviously be helpful for many readers.
PDF isn't paywalled.
This is not a reviewed scientific paper; this is a short letter citing a couple studies that didn't see much of a difference in infection rates between unvaccinated and vaccinated people. Conversely, we have a bunch of data showing the opposite.
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#9This isn't a reviewed article, btw, but a "correspondence", which per The Lancet: "Correspondence letters are not usually peer reviewed (we rarely publish original research in this section)".
Re: Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
#10Interesting, but the sample size discussed is very very small - 204 households - and, as the researcher notes, there are many confounding variables to consider. To me, this does not at all suggest that a change of public policy is warranted at this time, but it would definitely be interesting to see more research.