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Re:Covid-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people by blackbear_ on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:16AM (#29094903)
There is nothing about stopping transmission in there.
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Re:Covid-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people by mns on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:24AM (#29095039)
prevent: to stop something from happening or someone from doing something

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/prevent?...

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Re:Covid-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people by blackbear_ on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:03PM (#29096515)
In this case the appropriate definition of "prevention" and "what is prevented" is to be found in the protocol of the trial [1], not in a dictionary of the English language.

If I am reading correctly (but do correct me if I am wrong because I am not 100% certain), only symptomatic cases are counted. Hence, it is quite possible for the vaccine to stop the symptoms, but not the transmission between individuals.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577/suppl_f...

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