Yeah the paper is littered with these kinds of gaps in reasoning, see my other comment for a more detailed critique.
You’re attempting to tie these mutations to only the unvaccinated. They likely shed mutations as well but that’s not what this paper highlights.
Not only can the vaccinated spread the virus but they’re likely making it more pathogenic in the process. See here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...
Covid transmits in animals. CDC says based on current data, transmission to human is low (but not impossible) but more studies are needed. The fact they can get it is already not on the same scale as smallpox or polio.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
>The OP alleges it can't sufficiently mutate among the vaccinated, so their recommendation of full vaccination to eliminate the virus is perfectly consistent.
From the study:
"We conclude that the virus becomes more contagious as it is screened through the vaccinated population and the resultant strain becomes the dominant strain and able to infect the entire population."
The main takeaway from the paper is that the vaccinated are driving new variants.
>Opening up and letting everyone get delta, vaccinated or not, is going to happen sooner and is not good because passing through the unvaccinated will cause many new mutations some of which might start new waves.
Again, the paper states the vaccinated are driving new mutations. Technically due to natural immunity, the unvaccinated who have been previously infected are now in a better position than the vaccinated. They don't contract, get sick or spread whereas the vaccinated do. The big exception is unvaccinated who have never been infected by this coronavirus or any other past coronavirus. They are still susceptible to infection, spread, etc.
Filtering is the takeaway, one dominant strain and orders of magnitude less variations since most variation is not viable in a vaccinated public.
If we have a highly variable virus that never goes away. That is the flu.
We recommend that: 1) universal vaccination should be administered as soon as possible to suppress the generation of virulent mutations;
Wait, I’m being punked.. right?
How is universal vaccination the solution, if it is literally the cause of the more contagious strain?
The logic is a bit circular, no?