“If vaccinated individuals are capable of transmitting infection,” Corey writes, “then anybody who is not vaccinated fares no differently before than after the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine. With vaccine hesitancy resulting in fewer people agreeing to be vaccinated, we do not yet know whether and when we will be able to markedly reduce the public health implications of COVID-19 and reduce its circulation in the workplace, in close communities and stop super-spreading events.”
Looks like a bunch of speculation and fearmongering to me. As if these vaccines will suddenly work differently from every other vaccine we’ve ever used? The human immune system doesn’t care whether it was vaccinated via a gen 1, gen 2, or gen 3 vaccine. It doesn’t know or care about the difference. Foreign object is a foreign object is a foreign object. And if it’s foreign, I attack it, and if it doesn’t go away immediately, I create a specialized response to attack it.
That specialized response is governed by T-cell and B-cell interactions. The ~10% of B-cells that remain post-infection as Memory B-cells ARE created equal. Whether you had the smallpox vaccine or smallpox itself, or whether you had the COVID vaccine or COVID itself, you have the protection that comes from your body’s RESPONSE to a foreign invader; NOT from the vaccine or disease itself.