[2aProtectsTheRest]

News is reporting that all eight who are showing positive got the J&J shot. I haven’t seen anything around how effective J&J is at blocking asymptomatic infections. Pfizer blocks 94% of asymptomatic infections and 97% of symptomatic infections.

It’s reported that 7 of the 8 Yankees showing positive are asymptomatic: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/sport/yankees-test-positive-covid/index.html

[hillarys cankles]

72% effective.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-js-covid-19-vaccine-how-effective-is-it-and-when-will-it-be-available-11611940438

[pepsi_junkie]

Freepers ae on the 'if all the vaccine does is prevent you from gettting a bad case but you still can get a case than it's worthless' bandwagon. I will bet that none of these guys anything worse than mild cold symptoms, if even that. So far 7 out of 8 of them are in that boat. And that's assuming the positive tests are real, which is a whole 'nuther question.

I'll try to be consistent: I wasn't scared of COVID pre-vaccines because most cases in younger healthy people are mild. I'm not suddenly scared of it now that most cases - all cases? - in vaccinated people are mild. My standard is not 'nobody ever gets infected'.

[EBH]

asking that dumb question...

if they are asymptomatic...why are they being tested? And is the test detecting Covid or the vaccine?

Example: Cats can be vaccinated against FIV, but they will later test positive for FIV because the test cannot detect the difference.