Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by zwily on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:00PM (#25391805)

Regarding point 3 - isn’t it just that they haven’t studied that yet? The trials for the mRNA vaccines did not test for asymptomatic carriers, so they don’t know if it prevents transmission.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by nvahalik on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:07PM (#25391937)

Not sure about the testing, but as someone else pointed out to me, if you touch someone with dirty gloves, dirt will rub off.

I am not sure if asymptomatic transmission has been confirmed or not. I kept hearing that if you didn't have symptoms then you couldn't transfer it, but given the uptick in cases, it wouldn't seem like that is the case.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by mlyle on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:40PM (#25392477)

> I am not sure if asymptomatic transmission has been confirmed or not.

It's been confirmed, from early experience e.g. with the Diamond Princess and USS Theodore Roosevelt. It seems to be rare.

But paucisymptomatic transmission -- transmission before symptoms have manifested in people who will eventually be symptomatic -- is much less rare. So just quarantining people with symptoms doesn't work.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by dragonwriter on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:50PM (#25392607)

> But paucisymptomatic transmission – transmission before symptoms have manifested in people who will eventually be symptomatic – is much less rare.

The definition you give is for presymptomatic not paucisymptomatic (the latter is basically having trivial/mild symptoms that don’t raise complaints), but transmission in both cases is a significant risk, much more so than true asymptomatic transmission.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by mlyle on Saturday December 12, 2020 @01:21AM (#25396087)

Yes, sorry for eliding this.

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