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Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask
New York Times ^ | December 9, 2020 | Apoorva Mandavilli

Posted on 12/14/2020 7:53:26 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

The new Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna seem to be remarkably good at preventing serious illness. But it’s unclear how well they will curb the spread of the coronavirus.

That’s because the Pfizer and Moderna trials tracked only how many vaccinated people became sick with Covid-19. That leaves open the possibility that some vaccinated people get infected without developing symptoms, and could then silently transmit the virus — especially if they come in close contact with others or stop wearing masks.

If vaccinated people are silent spreaders of the virus, they may keep it circulating in their communities, putting unvaccinated people at risk.

“A lot of people are thinking that once they get vaccinated, they’re not going to have to wear masks anymore,” said Michal Tal, an immunologist at Stanford University. “It’s really going to be critical for them to know if they have to keep wearing masks, because they could still be contagious.”

In most respiratory infections, including the new coronavirus, the nose is the main port of entry. The virus rapidly multiplies there, jolting the immune system to produce a type of antibodies that are specific to mucosa, the moist tissue lining the nose, mouth, lungs and stomach. If the same person is exposed to the virus a second time, those antibodies, as well as immune cells that remember the virus, rapidly shut down the virus in the nose before it gets a chance to take hold elsewhere in the body.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirusvaccine; covid19; facemask; fear; mask; moreoldnews; vaccine
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To: Hulka

Agree. The Great Reset talked about openly now by world leaders constantly bring up the need for masks and shut downs. Now the vaccines, not one but two...AND keep wearing masks, the attack is never ending and will be until people rise up against the Reset/shutdown agenda...” Rise up”, -non compliance is just the very first step in combatting this agenda...violent Revolt is starting to look like a possibility. I find everything has been corrupted, news, entire government, elections, politicians, courts,....no surprise if the vacine is corrupted....my Pastor said yesterday, “ Be very, very careful what you choose to inject into your body”.


41 posted on 12/14/2020 8:22:45 AM PST by delta7
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To: Golden Eagle

Insane. If vaccinated people are spreading the virus, it clearly means the vaccine doesn’t work!

Or it works for its intended use which isn’t the virus.


42 posted on 12/14/2020 8:22:45 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

mask = mosque = slave


43 posted on 12/14/2020 8:23:47 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“That leaves open the possibility that some vaccinated people get infected without developing symptoms”

Does the vaccine really work, we already having people being infected without showing symptoms?


44 posted on 12/14/2020 8:25:02 AM PST by DEPcom (Fight for Trump)
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To: RedMominBlueState

https://futurism.com/neoscope/invisible-vaccine-ink-tattoos-kids

[beware, Snopes has claimed to have “debunked” this, as if that means anything at all]


45 posted on 12/14/2020 8:26:42 AM PST by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: Psalm 73

That’s exactly what I’ve been saying. I’ve been told that’s extreme to say, but at the time it didn’t seem so bad. It’s only hindsight that makes it extreme.


46 posted on 12/14/2020 8:27:03 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: AFB-XYZ

More proof that the left doesn’t believe in science . If you are immune you are immune . These liars need to be held accountable for what they have destroyed .


47 posted on 12/14/2020 8:28:57 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This takes us back to the time when we were fighting a disease without symptoms in the 1980’s.


48 posted on 12/14/2020 8:30:05 AM PST by pfflier
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To: BrexitBen

“The first time a person is infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, it can take several days or weeks for their body to make and use all the germ-fighting tools needed to get over the infection. After the infection, the person’s immune system remembers what it learned about how to protect the body against that disease.

The body keeps a few T-lymphocytes, called memory cells, that go into action quickly if the body encounters the same virus again. When the familiar antigens are detected, B-lymphocytes produce antibodies to attack them. Experts are still learning how long these memory cells protect a person against the virus that causes COVID-19.”

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html

So as I understand this, to get your body to produce the measures needed to fight off the virus means it has to get inside of you. There is no vaccine that just kills the virus on contact when it gets into your system. The shots start building protection, not protecting as that is done by the body, not the injection. So the shot is just teaching the body how to react, not kill the bug. And only God knows how long it is going to take for the body to be made bullet proof and who actually can be. Still a circus.

wy69


49 posted on 12/14/2020 8:39:16 AM PST by whitney69
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Everyone’s wearing a damn mask, why do we have high numbers of people affected? Does that mean we should wear two masks that don’t work? It’s obvious to me that they’re not working!

New York’s own stats show medical is the second highest according to their own contact tracing. Are nurses and doctors not wearing N95 masks? Don’t think so.


50 posted on 12/14/2020 8:39:25 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What’s the new flu strain this year? Why get the vaccine if they’re stealing freedom anyway? What are the benefits? Is there really nanobots in the vaccine?

I’ve begun to understand the medical side( thanks FReeper docs who have educated me) but how much is behavioral and government? Is this really a reset or will this all be rolled back? If government doesn’t mandate and businesses do how much freedom to buy and sell will there be? Mandated masks forever via China and Kamala?


51 posted on 12/14/2020 8:40:47 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The non-symptomatic carrier is a myth. Even China says that doesn’t happen, which means wearing a mask when you don’t have covid........is useless.


52 posted on 12/14/2020 8:41:29 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Practice burka


53 posted on 12/14/2020 8:42:53 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s jut adorable when people think we will ever be “allowed” to get back to normal. So cute!


54 posted on 12/14/2020 8:43:47 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Remember a day without a Mexican? Lets do a day without a mask and have all 70 million Trump voters go maskless. Maybe we will all die of covid like all the thousands that dropped dead after the Sturgis rally.


55 posted on 12/14/2020 8:44:24 AM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Freee-dame

56 posted on 12/14/2020 8:44:41 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Such bull crap


57 posted on 12/14/2020 8:46:34 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Due to physical limitations as well as to the improper way nearly everyone (because they haven’t been trained in proper PPE requirements), applies/seals, wears and maintains their mask, whether or not a person has been vaccinated is irrelevant to masking as a mask is completely, totally, conclusively ineffective in stopping transmission of a virus. Don’t believe me? Look at the facts ... look how effective forcing 90 percent of the population to mask for the past year has been in “stopping the spread of the virus.” And the “experts” undoubtely know this ... so they’re lying to everyone ... they’re just plain old liars of a breathtaking magnitude.


58 posted on 12/14/2020 8:47:30 AM PST by glennaro (“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This is a trash article cooked up by the deep state. If you are immune, you can’t spread it. Your immune system renders the virus non-infectious. Otherwise we would all be wearing masks for other airborne diseases like measles. Once vaccinated, after about 2 weeks, you are not going to spread it.


59 posted on 12/14/2020 8:49:37 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Biden should change his "100 Days to Wear a Mask" to "Wear a Mask for All Eternity."

Corrupt Joe and Spread Eagle Harris can both stick their masks where the sun doesn't shine.

I will NOT comply.

60 posted on 12/14/2020 8:49:48 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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