> That’s not how infectious diseases work. You can be getting other people sick.
That's not how vaccines against COVID-19 work. They diminish the risk of severe illness and death, not transmission rates.
That's not how vaccines against COVID-19 work. They diminish the risk of severe illness and death, not transmission rates.
> Based on evidence from clinical trials, in people ages 18 years and older, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was 94.1% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected.
If you’re prevent infection, aren’t you effectively reducing the R0 by definition? How is the vaccine making it harder to infect not reduce transmission rates?
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
> Reports of waning vaccine-induced immunity against COVID-19 have begun to surface. With that, the comparable long-term protection conferred by previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 remains unclear.
[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
> These results suggest that the vaccine is initially effective in reducing infectiousness of breakthrough infections even with the Delta variant, and that while this protectiveness effect declines with time it can be restored, at least temporarily, with a booster vaccine.
The paper you're looking at is analyzing waning immunity against the Delta variant.
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.29.21262798v...
Well, at least within households[0]:
> Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to those they share a home with
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/covid-vaccinat...