petergriffin999 t1_iw7g8sb wrote
Reply to comment by Darwins_Dog in Farmington child hospitalized for RSV in Maine after family cannot find NH beds by every1getslaid
Patently untrue. The study I'm referring to showed of > 1000 households where 1 person had COVID (half vaxxed, half not) what was the effect on other family members that shared the household, and visitors, where there was also a good mix of vaxxed and not vaxxed.
Some acquired the virus, some didn't. But even those results were evenly distributed among vaxxed and non vaxxed.
Darwins_Dog t1_iw7rpi3 wrote
What's untrue exactly? Here's a review of more than one study that found reduced infection and transmission potential. The results aren't as clear cut as those for preventing severe infection because it's much more difficult to study transmission (ethically and logistically) in a robust method.
Also, when I said it would be really weird for a vaccine to reduce disease severity and not transmission potential, I mean that there's no known mechanism by which that can happen. A vaccine can't reduce only the virus particles that stay in the body and skip the ones destined to be expelled. The immune system doesn't work that way.
thekuroikenshi t1_iw9vrwo wrote
The language you're using - "patently untrue" - is really strong for conclusions drawn from scientific study. Any good scientist couches their terms carefully for the very reason that because it's so damn ridiculously hard to prove causal relationships.
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