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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by JoshTriplett on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:22PM (#28531475)
Kids can also be carriers, and more spread among a partially resistant population means more mutation and more variants. Vaccines are in the process of being approved for all ages.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by suifbwish on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:32PM (#28531643)
Vaccinated individuals can also carry it. It does not stop spread or contraction. These Vaccines are just supposed to reduce the extreme Symptoms
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by outworlder on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:51PM (#28531897)
No they are not. They are supposed to allow the immune system to react more quickly after infection (essentially immediately if you have antibodies).

Kill pathogens more quickly, you'll be infectious for less time, and whoever do you infect will have a lower viral load.

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by not2b on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:51PM (#28531895)
That's incorrect. Vaccinated people are contracting Covid at a bit less than 1/5 the rate of the unvaccinated. See for example

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-case-rates-vaccination-...

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by lern_too_spel on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:32PM (#28533501)
I think it is very likely that vaccinated people are contracting COVID-19 less than unvaccinated people, but because most testing is done on symptomatic people, and the vaccine is known to reduce symptoms, the sampling bias is likely overstating the effect.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by mtinkerhess on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:48PM (#28531859)
Vaccination greatly reduces transmission.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by shkkmo on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:00PM (#28532674)
Vaccinations reduce your chance of getting infected and reduce the average duration of the infection. The combination of these two factors thus reduce the R value of covid in vaccinated populations when compared to unvaccinated populations with identical network topologies and behaviors.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by clavalle on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:54PM (#28531933)
Stop? No. Reduce? Yes.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by staplers on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:02PM (#28532046)
"A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) are less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others."

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...