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Originally Posted by birdiebill

What it means to me is that the vaccine will protect us with up to 95% protection from getting sick from the Covid virus. We still have a 5% chance of getting sick. To get sick, the virus has to get inside our human cells. The vaccine is designed to prevent the virus from getting inside our cells. But, it is unknown if a virus can enter our respiratory tree (nose, mouth, airway, lungs), not be able to enter any of our cells, but then pass out of our respiratory tree and infect someone close to us who has not been vaccinated.

Which pretty much applies to all of us, vaccinated or not. Any of us could be exhaling or have on our surface Covid particles. It is the amount of those particles that you might get that could determine infection. Duration of contact along with load are the keys.