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Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by angelzen on Thursday September 09, 2021 @04:27PM (#28474268)
> 10. Riemersma KA, Grogan BE, Kirta-Yarbo A, et al. Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Individuals Have Similar Viral Loads in Communities with a High Prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant. medRxiv. 2021 Jul 31; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387external

Not particularly supportive of the thesis your are arguing for. Perhaps you could narrow down a bit the range of papers that support 'vaccines prevent infection / transmission' thesis?

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Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by lamontcg on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:31PM (#28474901)
RT-PCR studies of Ct values only detects RNA loads and doesn't discriminate between viable virus and viral debris.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262158v...

> Results The delta variant (B.1.617.2) was identified in the majority of cases. Despite similar Ct-values, we demonstrate lower probability of infectious virus detection in respiratory samples of vaccinated HCWs with breakthrough infections compared to unvaccinated HCWs with primary SARS-CoV-2 infections. Nevertheless, infectious virus was found in 68.6% of breakthrough infections and Ct-values decreased throughout the first 3 days of illness.

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