“ The study found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated.”
I realize it’s against custom to read the article and even more so to read the actual study, but that’s not what the study says.
1. This is a study of 69 healthcare workers in a Vietnam hospital who became infected. The hospital has 900 staff members.
2. The study is comparing Delta to the original strain “ Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher
than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020.”
Note that it is NOT comparing the vaccinated to unvaccinated infected with delta. We’ve known for months that delta causes a much higher viral load in the infected, up to 1200 times the original strains.
The other findings mentioned:
The infected had lower antibody counts than uninfected controls.
“High viral loads coupled with prolonged PCR positivity and poorly ventilated indoor setting without in-office mask wearing might have facilitated the transmission between vaccinated healthcare
workers.”
Also interesting - “ One required cannula oxygen
supplementation for three days but all made full recovery in line with recent
reports regarding the vaccine effectiveness in protecting against severe disease.”
If you’re going to cite a paper, at least be aware what it really says.
Leave the gun, take the cannula? /ba-dum t'ssh> Do you have a link for the 1200x figure?
What everyone seems to be missing, is that the all-double-jabbed healthworkers seem to have been spreading this little gem exclusively among themselves...if I remember right from reading the article last week, before this thread.
Which means the existing jabs are of, hmmm, what’s the scientific word, oh yeah, LOUSY efficacy against this strain.