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Which means, vaccination doesn't works. Sounds like the antivaccers are right(?)

When you want to see it like this, we will never know enough to do anything. The only thing we can do with things that we can't change is to accept it. It's time to do...

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No, vaccinations prevent you from getting sick. It’s the choice between a mild illness and potentially being admitted into the hospital.

What we’re starting to see is potential for further variants to evade antibodies, reproduce inside you and thus you spread it. Your immune system is still able to fight the virus easier because the vaccine has trained your immune system to look out for contagions like this virus but for a while you’re still actively spreading the virus before you’ve cleared it from your system.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong though.

Fully vaccinated people still get hospitalized and some times die. If you are old or have comorbidity, even the vaccine won't save you. We need to get off this vaccine obsession and start working on early treatments.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

Yes. Here's some tabular data on hospitalizations and deaths vs. vaccination status[1] Those are easy to monitor. How well vaccination prevents infection is harder to determine.

Also remember, this is still the first generation of vaccines. There are some nasal spray vaccines in testing which look to be much more effective in preventing infection.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm#T1_down

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