I agree the reason for these articles is they don’t want people not wearing masks claiming they were vaccinated when they were not.
The headline and article are misleading. The mRNA vaccines are very effective when considered two weeks after the second dose. Read the whole article and even it states that at that point there are no cases beyond mild symptoms. I am in the Moderna study and recently learned I did receive the vaccine last September. They provided the detailed December report prior to unmasking as part of the informed consent prior to unmasking. In the study there were 5 vaccine participants who tested positive for the virus, none had anything more than mild symptoms. That meant the symptoms did not interfere with their daily life.
Reading the whole article, the reports of illness beyond asymptotmaticly testing positive or mild symptoms in the now millions of people receiving the vaccine are consistent with the study findings. All those who were really ill had not reached the two week after the second dose time frame. None were in the time frame where immunity is most effective. That’s with now millions of people protected. But they still want us all to wear the masks. That’s the BS.
I travelled a lot after receiving the vaccine. Lots of opportunities to become infected, and I have continued to follow the protocols, but I’m really getting tired of it. I have seen no reports regarding the real potential for a vaccinated person two weeks past the second dose being contagious. It seems the o ly folks that are contagious are those in the first couple of weeks of actual illness while they have a fever, even if slight. We should really be focusing on taking temperatures and get rid of masks when there are none.
Other than the fact they had to be locked up for two weeks...?
Except for quarantining.
And that's still no proof the vaccine worked because there's no way for ANYONE to know how they would have responded to the virus without the vaccine.
You can't get a mulligan on illness.
“That’s with now millions of people protected.”
A misleading statement. Perhaps should read “temporarily protected.”
Interesting that only 5 in the Moderna study tested positive after vaccination.
I wonder if they did viral loads on them....if so, bet they were very low (and thus very low to be infections as are asymptomatic COVID19 cases).
• There is no evidence of immune individuals (as historically defined) transmitting other respiratory viruses as viral replication and shedding is a prerequisite for viral spread and in immune individuals virus, which is prevented from growing exponentially so the viral numbers remain low (Curr Opin Virol 2018;28:142–51). Respiratory viruses can be detected in asymptomatic people. Someone with immunity cannot prevent virus entering their respiratory tract, however, when that occurs, their immune system invariably deals with the attack without causing symptoms. Asymptomatic transmission can only be proven by clear evidence that a patient has been infected by a person who was asymptomatic. Finding positive test results in asymptomatic individuals is not evidence of transmission.
Screening temperatures is not perfect as lots of false positives and false negatives. Symptom screening is likely the best screen.