Posted on 02/17/2021 7:39:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
* Dr. Fauci is touting some of the first evidence that vaccines can help stop the spread of COVID-19.
* Two new studies suggest vaccinated people don't spread the coronavirus well, even if they get sick.
* Getting vaccinated, Fauci said, is "not only good for you," but it can also protect others.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's new evidence that a COVID-19 vaccine may not just protect the people who get it but also shield others whom they come in contact with.
"There have been some studies that are pointing into a very favorable direction," Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Wednesday during a White House COVID-19 briefing.
While he said more conclusive research was still needed, the doctor pointed to two studies out this month.
Taken together, they are some of the earliest evidence we have that even if vaccinated people do get sick with COVID-19 - in what's called a "breakthrough" infection - the chances that they will then transmit their illness to others are far lower than if they had remained unvaccinated.
The No. 1 "looming question," Fauci said, is: "Does vaccine prevent transmission?"
These two studies are early signs pointing toward a "yes."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
In the study, conducted in Spain during March and April, scientists measured how much virus 314 coronavirus patients had during their infections by swabbing way up inside their noses (nasopharynx) and measuring their viral loads.
Then they looked at which of those patients transmitted the coronavirus to someone else.
They found that the higher a patient's viral load was, the more likely they were to pass their illness on to someone they came in contact with. And the higher the spreader's viral load was, the faster the person they infected tended to get sick.
"In other words, higher viral load, good transmissibility, low viral load, very poor transmissibility," Fauci said.
Until now, it wasn't known whether viral load affected infectiousness, so there was some concern that even people with low levels of virus could spread their illnesses around well.
But it's important to note that this study was performed nearly a year ago, when there wasn't as much concern about fast-spreading variants, so it's tough to interpret what it means for viral load and infectiousness now.
The second study, which came out last week and has not yet been peer-reviewed, suggested that people who were vaccinated in Israel had "significantly reduced" viral loads if they got sick, starting at least 12 days after full vaccination.
Taken together, these two studies suggest that:
It's possible, then, that vaccinating large numbers of people could help to crush the coronavirus outbreak, by not only keeping vaccinated people healthy, alive, and out of the hospital but also preventing any of those vaccinated people who might get sick (even asymptomatically) from passing their sickness along to others.
Lyin sumbitch.
Wonder who is paying him to say this.
They make it up as they go.
If you don’t get the virus because of the vaccine how n the hell canyou spread it to others Fauci the troll what a MORON!!!
No duh.
Uh... isn’t that what vaccines are supposed to do?
They make it up as they go.
Sounds like another lie to convince you to inject their poison.
Then why do we have to wear a mask?
Where did they get this retard?
IT’S 99.9% SURVIVABLE!!!
Practically everything else we are exposed to has more of a risk at taking us out.
We are living in very, twisted times.
Wake up folks!
That’s what I was thinking.
Or they may not.đź’‰. Or a four layer mask may work. Or not. Or 12 foot distancing would be twice as safe. Or not. Sorry fauxcheese.
Uhmm..Doctor, you just reversed your last reversal, this time, in reverse!
Fauci was also responsible for the AIDS crisis. Rather than offend people by telling homosexuals the bathhouses have to be closed, he went with “Anyone can get AIDS” and also promoted vaccine development.
RE: also promoted vaccine development.
Where is the AIDS vaccine? It’s been over 30 years now.
“Wonder who is paying him to say this.”
He just got a million bucks yesterday.
This is to add to the stigma against those who wom’t take the vaccine.
Let the 2 minutes hate begin. /1984
This untested (this is Phase III) vaccine is at least ~900x more deadly than the flu vaccine.
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