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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by innomatics on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:02PM (#25394042)
It's nice to believe this, but having a flu jab is only proven to protect yourself. It's not sterilising immunity so you can still become infected, shed virus, and infect others while asymptomatic.

It's quite dangerous if a lot people don't get that the covid vaccines also aren't proved (and are unlikely) to contain transmission. Risk is folks think that we will not longer need to care about hygiene, masks, isolation, quarantine and tracing once most people have been vaccinated.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by deathanatos on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:50AM (#25396538)
> It's nice to believe this, but having a flu jab is only proven to protect yourself. It's not sterilising immunity so you can still become infected, shed virus, and infect others while asymptomatic.

This directly contradicts the CDC:

> Getting vaccinated yourself may also protect people around you, including those who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness, like babies and young children, older people, and people with certain chronic health conditions.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by Amezarak on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:58AM (#25397969)
This isn't a contradiction at all. GP is saying it isn't proven to protect others. Your CDC quote says it "may" protect others.

I don't know the actual science here - but they could very well have zero evidence that it protects others and still correctly say that getting the flu vaccine may protect others.

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