U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers

Re:U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international... by calebm on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:01PM (#25753587)

I've heard that the vaccine doesn't make you less likely to transmit COVID - just less acute symptoms. So getting the vaccine doesn't really help other people - just you. From this perspective, this doesn't make much sense (unless the objective is to make $ for the corporations).

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Re:U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international... by bluGill on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:52PM (#25754385)

You heard wrong. Nobody actually knows if you can transmit after getting vaccinated or not. Thus far anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.

There is some evidence that some of the vaccines prevent transmissions, but we need more study before we can make a statistical determination.

We know why other vaccines have failed to stop transmission. The reasons those vaccines didn't stop transmission do not apply to the covid ones. However there is a lot we don't know about biology so until we have better evidence no expert will state that the vaccine stops transmission even though many believe it will.

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Re:U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international... by dvirsky on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:26PM (#25755517)

It was just published today that in Israel, where around 20% of the population has already been vaccinated with the first dose, they're beginning to see clear evidence that vaccinated people do not transmit it others.

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