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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: Little Ray

Exactly the same reason never to buy the first model of anything, like a car, boat, computer etc.


61 posted on 12/14/2020 8:51:43 AM PST by Senormechanico
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They just want total submission.


62 posted on 12/14/2020 8:52:30 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: Senormechanico

I never update my Windows OS until at least SP3 on the latest Microsoft disaster...


63 posted on 12/14/2020 8:52:57 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Vaccine Or No Vaccine, The Deep State Has Still Gotta' Keep The Pisants And Peons In Line


64 posted on 12/14/2020 8:56:58 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

65 posted on 12/14/2020 9:04:12 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Golden Eagle

I heard that the vaccine is 95 percent effective...and that the medical scientists are extremely happy about this esp since it is better percentage than the flu vaccine.


66 posted on 12/14/2020 9:04:59 AM PST by Karoo
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“silently transmit the virus”...Are people loudly transmitting it?


67 posted on 12/14/2020 9:05:43 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: doc maverick

If they can make a vaccine to stop this so called coronavirus, they can make one for the common cold.

YEP, thought so. There is no vaccine that will work, and I will not be taking it. There is something else going on with this.


68 posted on 12/14/2020 9:07:35 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So much BULLSH!T


69 posted on 12/14/2020 9:07:46 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: Edward Teach

I suppose you think that “quarentine” means ‘to isolate confirmed sick people so they wont infect any one else’?


70 posted on 12/14/2020 9:11:53 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“So your body is immune, but your NOSE will be a virus factory and you will spew virions all over the world AFTER you get vaccinated.”

If you are immune, you won’t be a virus factory.


71 posted on 12/14/2020 9:14:28 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Since it comes from an America-hating rag, I’ll pay no attention to it.


72 posted on 12/14/2020 9:16:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much much much much much more than a virus from china.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The question is....are you brave enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-LHdEUrGa8

Here’s how the media wants you to think. Having trouble interpreting what’s really going on in the world? Of course you can always trust the media to lead the way to the promised land of truth.


73 posted on 12/14/2020 9:21:30 AM PST by consult
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To: Hulka
So, for ever and ever we must wear a mask?

The masks have nothing to do with health. They're a visible symbol of compliance. That we'd still be demanded to wear masks even after vaccination is not a surprise.

Take the masks off.

We need to do this ourselves because they're never going to tell us it's OK to take our masks off.

I was standing in line outside Pizza Hut Saturday night, socially distanced but unmasked. There were two other people in line as well and I noticed after a couple of minutes they both took their masks off and the three of us engaged in conversation, unmasked and without a care in the world.

This is what it is going to take. The more people who remove their masks, the more of a comfort level for the rest to do so as well.

74 posted on 12/14/2020 9:21:57 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Edward Teach
I have no idea if the article is correct or not, but here is the key point:
Some of those antibodies will circulate in the blood to the nasal mucosa and stand guard there, but it’s not clear how much of the antibody pool can be mobilized, or how quickly. If the answer is not much, then viruses could bloom in the nose — and be sneezed or breathed out to infect others.

“It’s a race: It depends whether the virus can replicate faster, or the immune system can control it faster,” said Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. “It’s a really important question.”

This is why mucosal vaccines, like the nasal spray FluMist or the oral polio vaccine, are better than intramuscular injections at fending off respiratory viruses, experts said. The next generation of coronavirus vaccines may elicit immunity in the nose and the rest of the respiratory tract, where it’s most needed. Or people could get an intramuscular injection followed by a mucosal boost that produces protective antibodies in the nose and throat.

This is the first I've heard about the difference in effect between vaccines administered intramuscularly and mucosaly.
75 posted on 12/14/2020 9:33:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: Karoo

95% effective on a virus that has a 99% survival rate. Lol.


76 posted on 12/14/2020 9:35:34 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The NYT is a virulent, dangerous virus.


77 posted on 12/14/2020 9:42:28 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Interesting.

There is plenty of opportunity for Science to figure out the answers to pertinent questions.

Fauxcy [and the CDC/FDA] is a Fraud when it comes to actually using Science to help Society.


78 posted on 12/14/2020 9:48:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: nascarnation
I had a good stock of true N95 masks for my auto body work. I sterilize them at 160F in the oven, supposedly this works.

The repeated heating cycles will damage the elastic straps. Find a way to replace them as necessary.

79 posted on 12/14/2020 9:51:53 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Anybody anywhere still believes this tyranny has anything at all To do with a respiratory virus is a fool ... a total fool. There is simply no other conclusion that can reasonably be made. Don't believe it? Meanwhile, public health "genius" Bill Gates said we must expect lockdowns, restrictions and masking through at least 2022! QED
80 posted on 12/14/2020 10:00:07 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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