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

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by colordrops on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:38PM (#29121649)

I thought the vaccines don't stop or even really slow spread that much, especially with Delta variants. At least that's what authorities are saying. My understanding is that the point of vaccines as now explained is to prevent hospitalizations.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by jayknight on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:04PM (#29121996)

They do. If you have a "breakthrough infection", you are just as likely to spread it to someone else as someone who is infected without the vaccine. But you're much less likely to get infected in the first place if you've had the vaccine, so overall much less likely to pass it to others. So the more people who get vaccinated, the slower the spread.

See https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by rsynnott on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:04PM (#29122722)

> If you have a "breakthrough infection", you are just as likely to spread it to someone else as someone who is infected without the vaccine

Somewhat less likely; on average if you're vaccinated you won't be infectious for as long a time if you do get it.

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