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Re:A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccina... by zamalek on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:38AM (#29702792)
Vaccines do prevent spreading [1]. The problem is that we didn't achieve herd immunity prior to Omicron.

The current COVID vaccine is not effective at preventing the spread of Omicron, specifically.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine

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Re:A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccina... by evv555 on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:45AM (#29702851)
Not in this case. The covid vaccines just turned the vaccinated into asymptomatic delta superspreaders. There was no likely endgame where we reach herd immunity with the current vaccines.
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Re:A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccina... by nradov on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:13AM (#29703082)
We knew that it would be impossible to achieve any meaningful level of herd immunity even prior to Omicron.

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

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