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Herd immunity would only occur if the vaccine stopped transmission, right?

Sadly, this is not the case. Vaccinated people achieve high viral loads too.

Except the viral load is decreased if you’re vaccinated https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-crucial-vacci...

...aaand one day later the CDC says the direct opposite in order to justify a new mask mandate, citing unreleased but super scary and definitely trustworthy data.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210729042140/https://www.washi...

Don’t have to listen to CDC then, can trust the data that is already published.

> Don’t have to listen to CDC then...

heh, yeah - that'll work out great I'm sure. "You don't understand, officer! According to the published research..."

That’s just grasping at straws. If you try to get a holistic overview, no single measure is 100% effective. But you can combine masks, vaccinations, social distancing, etc. till pandemic stops to be a problem.

In breakthrough cases in the vaccinated population, their viral load has been found to be just as high as the unvaccinated population. According to Dr. Fauci, this is actually why the CDC changed their masking guidelines for vaccinated people.

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