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Re:Covid-19 Vaccinations in the United States by kart23 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:38AM (#25567907)
The people going out, being social and contributing to case counts are mostly younger healthy people. Which are among the last to get vaccinated. There was a fascinating article here a while ago claiming that if we vaccinated those people first, we actually would stop the spread far quicker.
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Re:Covid-19 Vaccinations in the United States by throwaway189262 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:45AM (#25567943)
Young people have far lower fatality and hospitalization rates though. If COVID only infected people under 40 it would be equivalent to a bad flu season.

A lot of reason for mask wearing and social distancing is to protect the vulnerable

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Re:Covid-19 Vaccinations in the United States by kart23 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:10PM (#25571973)
yeah, i mean that’s why we are vaccinating the most vulnerable first and i agree that’s the ethically right thing to do. but doing it the other way around would probably stop it quicker.
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Re:Covid-19 Vaccinations in the United States by Pinguinsan on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:04AM (#25568371)
Has the vaccine been shown to prevent transmission?
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