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So here’s the short answer: We don’t know yet.
Can vaccinated people still spread COVID-19? Here’s what we know.
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Let's hope the Sensibles significantly outnumber the Rash. One can only hope.The article has a lot of information addressing the title question.So here’s the short answer: We don’t know yet.Can vaccinated people still spread COVID-19? Here’s what we know.
A really good and informative article. Thanks for posting this.The article has a lot of information addressing the title question.So here’s the short answer: We don’t know yet.Can vaccinated people still spread COVID-19? Here’s what we know.
Always a good idea to take precautions at least untill there is an answer.
all people that have had corona virus previously, or are vaccinated against it, are in fact likely to be infected when they come into contact with the virus again.
It is in effect a race between their immune systems being sufficiently primed to kill of the virus before it can develop a sufficient load, to either become a full blown reinfection, or to be sufficient to pass on to others.
This is of course true of all virus infections.
However if virtually everyone is protected by vaccination. the chances of finding someone to pass it on to becomes statistically insignificant.
The corona virus has become especially contagious, so until the vaccination program is near complete. it will make sense for everyone to minimise contacts with people that they have not been associating with in a bubble.
This situation will probably be ongoing for at least a year after the program is complete.
Thereafter one can expect a number of infections among unprotected people, leading to some annual deaths, but probably on a similar scale to Flue or Measles.
The best outcome would be for the vaccination and protection to be so effective that no one ever builds up a dangerous virus load. The more likely outcome is that only very few people will become reinfected in that way, or able to pass on the virus and reinfect others.
YesThe article has a lot of information addressing the title question.So here’s the short answer: We don’t know yet.Can vaccinated people still spread COVID-19? Here’s what we know.
society may choose to tolerate a background level of infection,
I have heard of new strains in Ohio, Michigan, UK, California....We may not have a choice given that I've heard about two new variants in the virus in the last few days.
I think we can live with another 'cold' or 'flu' especially if the vaccine coverage for new variants keeps up.
As important purpose of mass vaccination against Covid is to reduce hospital admissions, and alleviate the pressure on overwhelmed health services.
And the more of this disease remains, the more opportunity there will be for further mutations and new strains to develop. It's basic evolution theory. So one of the advantages of vaccinating as widely as possible (and that means all over the world, by the way, not just in our own countries) is to reduce the rate at which new strains emerge.I have heard of new strains in Ohio, Michigan, UK, California....
You seem to be muddling several things up here. Hospitals quite rightly want to segregate those patients with possible covid 19 who are attending hospital for any reason, whether it be serious or trivial, planned or unplanned. If they don't do that, these people just infect everyone else, including the staff.Do you think people are going to the ER prematurely?
When I went to get my ultrasound the nurse said if I had "any" symptom of covid they'd transfer me to a larger hospital without verifying that's what I wmhad in this analogy. So people are going to the ERs and called cases before they time out ones who actually have the condition.
Then, on the other hand, some people are scared to go to the ER and die if say a heart attack but they brush that aside.
It's a catch 22
I think you're describing herd immunity.
No that is quite different.
That relies on sufficient people having had it to break the chain to those that have not.
it does not rely on vaccination at all.
What I said was correct. See the Wiki article:
Herd immunity - Wikipedia
One way to achieve herd immunity is by vaccinating a proportion of the population large enough to bring R below 1.No that is quite different.
That relies on sufficient people having had it to break the chain to those that have not.
it does not rely on vaccination at all.
One way to achieve herd immunity is by vaccinating a proportion of the population large enough to bring R below 1.
You seem to be muddling several things up here. Hospitals quite rightly want to segregate those patients with possible covid 19 who are attending hospital for any reason, whether it be serious or trivial, planned or unplanned. If they don't do that, these people just infect everyone else, including the staff.
You seem to be confusing that policy with people who are so ill with Covid 19 that they need emergency hospital treatment for it.
The two are quite unrelated.
As for people avoiding hospital when they need urgent treatment for other conditions (heart attack, stroke etc), for fear either of catching the virus or of being a burden to a hospital that is already overloaded, that is a real issue and the British NHS has been urging people not to be put off. So they most certainly do not brush that aside, in the UK at least.
There is no catch 22 here.