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Originally Posted by Pugchief
That is patently false.
Since the vax does not prevent transmission, other people being vaxxed has ZERO effect on everybody else.
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No one said it "prevents" transmission.
Reducing transmission, having fewer sick people with less severe disease obviously reduced risk for everyone.
Once vaccination rates approached 50%, viral loads in the vaccinated who tested positive were up to 50% lower and for a shorter period of time than the vaccinated.
Also at that time, for every ten hospitalized for COVID, nine were unvaccinated.
Rechecking my recollection:
COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Adults 18 Years or Older in 13 US States, January 2021 to April 2022 | Critical Care Medicine | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
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Findings
In this cross-sectional study of US adults hospitalized with COVID-19 during January 2022 to April 2022 (during Omicron variant predominance),
COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates were 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated persons and 2.5 times higher in vaccinated persons with no booster dose, respectively, compared with those who had received a booster dose. Compared with unvaccinated hospitalized persons, vaccinated hospitalized persons were more likely to be older and have more underlying medical conditions.
Meaning
The study results suggest that COVID-19 vaccines are strongly associated with prevention of serious COVID-19 illness."
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Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study...
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Vaccination was found to be effective in reducing household transmission of the alpha variant (B.1.1.7) by 40–50%,1 and infected, vaccinated individuals had lower viral load in the upper respiratory tract (URT) than infections in unvaccinated individuals,"