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Re:U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Co... by sjg007 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:41PM (#30617599)
Right but vaccination should mitigate omicron... I guess really this is the test of that.
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Re:U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Co... by robbedpeter on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:15PM (#30618755)
Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. It protects you from serious illness and death if/when you get it. The whole transmission protection meme needs to die.

It has a trivial effect at the population level wrt the spread of covid.

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Re:U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Co... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:18PM (#30618792)
> Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission.

This is false. It does not stop transmission. It does reduce it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/the-new-omicron-subvariant-i...

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Re:U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Co... by EdwardDiego on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:07PM (#30620616)
It does reduce transmission, I was reading a research paper out of the UK, and while vaccinated people who got infected hit the same peak viral load as someone unvaccinated, they were at the peak viral load for a far shorter period of time.

I can try to locate the link if you're interested.

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Re:U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Co... by throwaway6532 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:27PM (#30622205)
It doesn't make transmission impossible. It makes it less probable, which most definitely does reduce transmission.

To say "Vaccination doesn't reduce transmission" is to say "Vaccination has no effect on the R value". It clearly does.

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