Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by nradov on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:21PM (#29121412)

Please stop spreading misinformation. I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but by your definition vaccinated people are also "walking bioweapons". The main benefit of vaccination is in preventing severe symptoms, not transmission. Since the virus is now endemic we'll all likely get infected eventually regardless of vaccination rates.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by jatone on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:37AM (#29241694)

hardly disinformation. vaccinated individual are less contagious, tend to clear their system of the virus faster, etc.

are they still potentially vectors? yes. could the virus still potentially mutate? yes.

is the chance of either of those happening greatly reduced? absolutely. so relatively speaking the vaccinated are walking bioweapons in comparison.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by Izkata on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:13PM (#29122838)

> but by your definition vaccinated people are also "walking bioweapons".

Worse than unvaccinated really, since they're less likely to get sick they won't know they're infected and that they should try to stay home.

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