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Originally Posted by Carth
What would a vaccine passport achieve?
I was under the impression that the vaccine neither prevents you from catching Covid or passing it on to others.  |
You're right, it's exactly what a doctor said this morning. The only upside appears to be that it will
probably prevent those who catch it from getting the most severe affects of covid.
So, as you say, what is the point of a vaccine passport?
Also, though I can understand why they're doing it, the mass testing of the lorry drivers isn't foolproof. We're really just grasping at straws and hoping for the best as that's all that we can do at this point in time.
The mutations in the UK & South Africa have really added fuel to the fire.
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Originally Posted by jonbxx
There is certainly some evidence that both the mRNA (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) and Adenoviral (Oxford/AZ) vaccines reduce viral load either in animal studies, human studies or both. Lower viral load means less virus to spread even if infected.
Of course studies are ongoing here which is why, at this point, you can't say that either types of vaccine prevents infection or infection spread specifically. We can only say it prevent symptomatic infections.
If the human studies confirm what was seen in the animal studies (lower viral load and rapid infection clearance) then that's where a vaccinated but infected person would be a lower risk and that's where passports would be handy
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That's some positive news, I suppose it's only a matter of waiting to see what happens and hoping for the best now.