
20th December 2020, 04:19 PM
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Improbable CGI Physique
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Deep in the Sound
Posts: 4,918
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Originally Posted by C2H5OH
oh, well. i'll get vaccinated at the first instant i'm allowed, and i don't care which one i get. if i CAN'T get the plague (because i've been vaccinated), she won't, as long as she can only get it from me, and i continue to herd her appropriately. So she can continue to listen to that stupidity. oh well, it just means she's going to have to stay socially isolated longer than i will...
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Be careful about that - no one knows yet whether the vaccines available prevent transmission in addition to preventing disease (although hopefully they do.) You might be able to have a subsymptomatic amount of virus in your system and transmit it to her even after you've been vaccinated:
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Originally Posted by John Hopkins University Vaccine FAQ
Although the phase 3 clinical trials are designed to determine whether vaccinated individuals are protected against disease, it will also be important to understand whether vaccinated individuals are less likely to transmit the virus. This is likely but not ensured. If a vaccine not only protects against disease but reduces transmission, and continues to do so for many years, we are likely to reach a state of herd protection when masks and physical distancing will no longer be required. Herd protection is achieved when a sufficient proportion of the population is made non-infectious through vaccination or natural infection so that the likelihood of an infectious individual transmitting to a susceptible individual is very low.
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https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/vaccines-faq
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