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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3965980, member: 44"] [I] “The clinical trials of Covid vaccines thus far have focused primarily on preventing the symptoms and severity of Covid rather than evaluating acquisition of the virus and transmission to others,” Creech says. [B]Patients who have been vaccinated can certainly still contract SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and pass it on to others.[/B] There are two reasons for that, says [URL='http://www.emorydailypulse.com/2019/12/17/highlighted-researcher-matthew-woodruff/']Matthew Woodruff[/URL], an immunologist at Emory University. First, he says, [B]being vaccinated doesn't guarantee protection[/B]. Both the [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/covid-vaccines-from-pfizer-pfe-moderna-mdrn-leave-little-room-for-others']Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines [/URL]have been shown to be extremely effective — about 95% — at preventing Covid symptoms, but that still means they won't work in some people. [IMG alt="Yankee Stadium Opens As Covid-19 Vaccination Hub "]https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6G0QJN7MMDM/v0/800x-1.jpg[/IMG] A worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech in the Bronx borough of New York on Feb. 5. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg “This means that in your neighborhood of 40 vaccinated individuals, even if everyone has followed CDC recommendations, there will still likely be two people at risk of contracting and spreading the disease,” Woodruff says. “We do know that those two people will likely have less-severe disease than they would have otherwise, but I don't think anyone would seriously argue that they are incapable of transmission.” Secondly, says Woodruff,[B] being protected from symptoms of a disease isn't the same as being free from infection.[/B] “It is certainly possible that patients that are otherwise protected from symptoms will still have low-level infections that they may not even notice,” he says.[/I] LINK [CENTER][IMG alt="shooting star GIF"]https://media2.giphy.com/media/83QtfwKWdmSEo/200.gif[/IMG][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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