EBH wrote: “We do know this is not a vaccine. It simply prevents manifestations of symptoms and you can still get/have Covid.”
From your link: “Was vaccine efficacy only measured in symptomatic COVID-19? The reported efficacy rates of 94 or 95 percent are for symptomatic disease only. Because the clinical trials for Pfizer and Moderna did not require regular testing for COVID-19, they were not a good indication of how well the vaccine protects against asymptomatic disease (which account for some 40 percent of cases).”
Sorry but we do not know that this is not a ‘vaccine’. Your own link, quoted above, clearly states that this was not tested. Since it was not tested, one cannot make the statement you made.
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We know the vaccine really reduces incidents of symptomatic disease, but we don’t know how it impacts the incidents of asymptomatic disease.”
Researchers should know the answer in a couple of months. “I think that logically speaking it should prevent or at least reduce asymptomatic disease,” said Boslett. “Most other vaccines do prevent both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriage and transmission, but until we prove it, we don’t want to assume anything.”