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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by Tagbert on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:41AM (#26556331)
If we have a significant population of unvaccinated people, that provides the breeding ground for the virus to multiply and mutate into new strains that may bypass the current vaccine induced immunity which would require yet another round of vaccines.
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by ghoward on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:34PM (#26556953)
Vaccinated people are still breeding grounds for a virus; they can still be carriers. Vaccines just give people the antibodies to not be affected by a virus.
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by _joel on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:05PM (#26558129)
But they are vastly less likely to shed if they have been vaccinated, therefore less transmission.

https://theconversation.com/can-vaccinated-people-still-spre...

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by ghoward on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#26558327)
That article gave no numbers. It made a claim and didn't back it up.
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by _joel on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:52PM (#26558761)
There's links in the article to Scientific American which also had papers from October 2020.
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by ghoward on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:13PM (#26559081)
Cool. Where does that dispute the fact that those who are vaccinated are still breeding grounds for new variants of the virus?
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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by _joel on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:47PM (#26559520)
If they shed less then they are less transmissible, it's in the article. It isn't about completely erradicating tranmission but bringing it to a level where the problem receeds. It's statistics, not a binary thing.
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