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The developer of the AstraZeneca shot says the Delta variant has made herd immunity impossible because vaccinated people can still transmit the virus
Business Insider ^ | 08/11/2012 | Marianne Guenot

Posted on 08/11/2021 7:01:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

The Delta variant has changed the equation for achieving herd immunity, the developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca has said.

Speaking at a UK parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, Sir Andrew Pollard, a professor of paediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, said that achieving herd immunity is "not a possibility" now that the Delta variant is circulating. 

"We know very clearly with coronavirus that this current variant, the Delta variant, will still infect people who have been vaccinated and that does mean that anyone who's still unvaccinated, at some point, will meet the virus," Pollard said.

He said it was unlikely that herd immunity will ever be reached, saying the next variant of the novel coronavirus will be "perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astrazeneca; covid19; deltavariant; herdimmunity; vaccine
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No herd immunity.

Vaccinated People can still get Covid.

Vaccinated People can still transmit the virus.

Nothing can stop that transmission.

Can someone tell me again WHY FedZilla is forcing an EUA down our throats, like it or not?

1 posted on 08/11/2021 7:01:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Death is not negotiable .....


2 posted on 08/11/2021 7:03:21 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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“Can someone tell me again WHY FedZilla is forcing an EUA down our throats, like it or not?”

Lots of money being made on those “vaccines”. Fauci is probably raking in the cash.


3 posted on 08/11/2021 7:03:21 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How convenient.


4 posted on 08/11/2021 7:04:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is going well.

Old Fastball Fauci is in the dugout trying to figure out if Gatorade is made from real alligators.


5 posted on 08/11/2021 7:04:28 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Responsibility2nd

We’re stuck with this virus, nothing we can do, Let the mask burning parties begin.


6 posted on 08/11/2021 7:05:28 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: Responsibility2nd

But won’t the vaxxed people still develop natural immunity to it? So the NEXT time…


7 posted on 08/11/2021 7:07:39 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Responsibility2nd
If you are a Colorado Catholic you can print your "Religious Exemption" here:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/736432/

8 posted on 08/11/2021 7:07:46 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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Hopefully it’s nothing more than greed. Still disgusting that so many people are putting profit ahead of lives but it’s better than other possible explanations like depopulation.

//Sir Andrew Pollard said

Wonder if we’re related?


9 posted on 08/11/2021 7:09:09 AM PDT by Pollard
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Herd is correct. A herd of SHEEP.

Deep down here in Broward county FL is a good example of sheep obeying unconstitutional “mandates”. It’s literally nauseating seeing these sheep walk around, often alone, with a diaper on their faces.

They’re afraid of air. (Broward went 75% slojo yeah, it’s sickening living here)

I stopped buying beer at the nearest 711 because I walked in once without a mask on and they stood there with their arms behind their backs. And said, no mask no service. Haven’t set foot back there since. And I bought a lot of beer.

These people are pitiful. Nearly 95% of the people in walmart had face diapers on last Sunday. They look at you unmasked like you’re a freak or something.


10 posted on 08/11/2021 7:11:38 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (On Telegram, I'm "TooDamTall" no quotes)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You can delay herd immunity,
but you can’t escape it.


11 posted on 08/11/2021 7:13:22 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Herd immunity, like always, happens when enough people catch covid-19, and get over it. Their redefining it non withstanding.


12 posted on 08/11/2021 7:15:39 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: bicyclerepair

Why do you care if other people wear a mask?

Why does that trigger you so?


13 posted on 08/11/2021 7:16:02 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Skywise

Maybe. Let’s hope so.

What I think is being ignored by our esteemed scientists is this bat virus was engineered to infect human beings. Unlike a virus that had to spend an untold number of tries to jump species and whose ability to adapt to human immunity is not very efficient, the Chicom bioweapon is quite adept at doing so.

Even if vaccination reduces transmission in half, this bug still would have a transmission rate of four. Meaning four new cases for every infection rather than eight. In either case, almost all of us will be exposed at some point if this holds true.


14 posted on 08/11/2021 7:16:59 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: Responsibility2nd

What did they think was going to happen, that no variants would happen??

What a total SNAFU!!


15 posted on 08/11/2021 7:17:01 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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16 posted on 08/11/2021 7:17:47 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Fury

Masks did no good, mask hygiene was horrible, so bad in fact masks probably made the spread worse. I know, because I’ve fit tested for masks as PPE for a whole career. The way people works masks for covid was an absolute joke.


17 posted on 08/11/2021 7:19:54 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Agreed 100% - very few people know how to don and doff a mask.


18 posted on 08/11/2021 7:21:23 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Responsibility2nd

Of course vaccinated people can transmit the virus IF THEY ARE INFECTED. THIS is NOT NEWS. Post trial studies showed that, compared to the unvaccinated, the vaccinated had 90% FEWER infections that were DETECTABLE. If you don’t have a detectable infection, you are not infectious and can’t “transmit the virus”. So yes, that 10% of vaccinated who had detectable viral loads could potentially infect others. But the unvaccinated were becoming detectably infected (and hence infectious) at TEN TIMES THE RATE of the vaccinated.


19 posted on 08/11/2021 7:23:24 AM PDT by House Atreides
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Vaccinated people are getting infected, where have you been for the last few weeks??


20 posted on 08/11/2021 7:27:10 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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