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Originally Posted by Carth
May I butt in with a couple of questions?
Has it yet been proven that the vaccine prevents you from catching Covid-19?
If it doesn't, can you catch it and spread it to others?
If you've had the first and second jab, then go out and mingle with people who have tested positive, would you still be 'told' by track & trace to isolate for a week?
It seems (to a fikko like me) that there are more grey areas than a library (remember those? ) full of pensioners  |
Very good questions and it seems that the simple answer is we don't know for sure if any vaccine will stop infections and stop you spreading the bug. What we do know is that the vaccination makes the likelihood of you getting really sick and even dying much less. If everyone gets vaccinated, COVID at worst becomes the sniffles.
Here's a really good article on this here -
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00450-z
The best way to answer your questions is to do a challenge test where some hardy souls/heroes/people desperate for cash/complete mugs get deliberately infected with SARS-COV2. A trial is about to be started here in the UK -
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/w...oval-in-the-uk