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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by shock on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:22AM (#29351528)
You seem to be spreading misinformation all over this thread.

Here[0]'s a study from Nov 19th, saying that:

No significant differences were detected in duration of RT-PCR positivity among fully vaccinated participants (median: 13 days) versus those not fully vaccinated (median: 13 days; p=0.50), or in duration of culture positivity (medians: 5 days and 5 days; p=0.29).

[0] - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.12.21265796v...

Please provide some citations to back up your claims.

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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by whimsicalism on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:46AM (#29351775)
Nothing I said has anything to do with duration of positivity?

A few citations on why the evidence leans towards reducing the spread being more effective at reducing variant selection: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1462816243245719558?t=9OCuB... Here is a citation regarding viral load. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4

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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by shock on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:08PM (#29351971)
Quote from the study you linked: "[...] we found that BTIs[breakthrough infections] in recently fully vaccinated individuals have lower viral loads than infections in unvaccinated individuals. However, this effect starts to decline 2 months after vaccination and ultimately vanishes 6 months or longer after vaccination."
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