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Originally Posted by Mick
Sick of reading misinformation and crap posted like this - if you have ALL the vaccines, you CAN still pass it on, it is a medical and scientific fact, I don't want to see comebacks of, well the vaccine helps to stop transmission, or it lowers the chances of it being passed on, Utter nonsense!- no it does not in any significant way, you can still get covid, vaccine or no vaccine, so this bullshit about the unvaccinated being the risk and we need to curb their freedoms, it is nothing but pure fanciful authoritarian bullshit.
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Not nonsense at all old chap.
This is still pretty hot off the presses but vaccination clearly does reduce transmission in a significant way.
This is the killer table showing the risk on transmission if vaccinated and the risk of infection if vaccinated;
Best case, if you are vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, you reduce the risk of transmission by 70% (that is with the Alpha variant, it's 50% with Delta)
Vaccines seem to speed up virus clearance - it looks like the amount of virus in a vaccinated and unvaccinated infected person is the same at their peaks but vaccinated people clear the virus quicker. Basically, they are not infectious as long as unvaccinated.
So, to turn it around, unvaccinated people are more likely to infect others. Plus of course, there's the whole hospitalisation and death thing that vaccines handily protect you from