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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by maxk42 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:36PM (#29739734)
Yet people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease. So how do you quantify the excess risk? Particularly for those who are young and healthy and unlikely to develop severe viral loads or complications? Are there any studies that show transmission rate for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated by age range?
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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by justin66 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:11PM (#29740183)
> Yet people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease.

They're over ninety percent more likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to remain uninfected, in which case they will not transmit the disease.

The questions regarding reduced viral shedding among the infected but vaccinated, and how much that effects that population's transmission rate, is interesting but probably secondary, I would think. (I don't know quite whether those were all rhetorical questions or something you wanted a dissertation on :D )

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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by Jensson on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:20PM (#29740327)
> They're over ninety percent more likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to remain uninfected, in which case they will not transmit the disease.

Not against omicron, it basically ignores vaccines. Vaccinated people might be a bit less serious, but they still get ill and we have had many super spreader events among vaccinated populations where almost everyone exposed got it.

Vaccine might reduce spread a little, but vaccinated people spread it so much already that it can't be anywhere close to 90% not spreading.

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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:42PM (#29740581)
> Not against omicron, it basically ignores vaccines. Vaccinated people might be a bit less serious, but they still get ill and we have had many super spreader events among vaccinated populations where almost everyone exposed got it.

Omicron increases vaccine escape rates from about 5% to 30% which is bad, but not ignoring vaccines.

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