Early signs Covid-19 vaccines may not stop Delta transmission, England says

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I know two people who have caught Covid in the past couple of weeks and who had had both jabs; one AZ and one Pfizer. My understanding is that the vaccines don't necessarily stop you getting Covid or passing it on. But they do make it a lot less likely Covid will hospitalise or kill you.

This is basically what they've been saying all along, and the way my household has been treating it even though we all have full vaccinations. We still distance. We still mask. I'm not fond of all the confused messaging going around today.

For the people in the back: intramuscular vaccines do not precent viral reproduction in your nose, meaning you can still spread a virus. Only nasal delivery prevents it. We need nasal boosters, not more intramuscular shots.

"We need"?

The current vaccines provide good personal protection for the vaccinated, but since they don't protect very well against spreading, not for the unvaccinated.

When you write "we need", doesn't that really mean something closer to "the unvaccinated among us need"? It seems to me that the unvaccinated are precisely those who disagree with that need (except a few).

No, the vaccinated. To prevent actual spread.

And also preferably updated against the dominating strain

So trick here would be to know how many time one can be infected with Delta without developing a severe case of COVID19,

Because the virus is going to be bumping across the entire population as if the vaccines didn't exists at all.

Also, if Delta has entire populations to bump around unchecked, new variants could / will emerge. So more viral surprises are in the way to us.

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