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A vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission - or does it?

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Whenismumhome · 10/11/2020 10:55

Interested in how a vaccine actually works.

As far as I understand, vaccines don’t stop viruses from spreading but they give a person immunity so that they can fight off the virus should they actually become infected with it which means their symptoms (if any) are likely to be mild and death is less likely.

Am I right? So in other words, when the vaccine becomes available worldwide and when the pandemic is over, covid will still spread amongst people but it just won’t be as severe and deadly anymore?

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Qasd · 10/11/2020 10:57

We don’t know, they can do both this one has yet to report on impact of transmission (they possibly don’t know themselves yet)

CuriousaboutSamphire · 10/11/2020 10:59

Erm...that's possibly missing the point!

Think about flu vaccines, booster vaccines, repeat vaccines.

www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/conversations/downloads/vacsafe-understand-color-office.pdf

BettysSpaghetti · 10/11/2020 11:04

They have said they don’t know the answer to that yet.

satnighttakeaway · 10/11/2020 11:06

Unless it's changed overnight I'm sure I heard this was covered at the press conference yesterday and the answer was no one knows

Whenismumhome · 10/11/2020 11:19

Where did they say this at?

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 10/11/2020 12:36

Monday night's podium talk! JVT went to great lengths to explain it. I think he was forestalling the great mejja hype/misleading info!

Radio 2 Jeremy Vine just had a Naked Scientist discussing it in great detail too. You could get that on playback! He stopped speaking just after 12.30

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