Transmission/vaccine question

[sparkle17]

So if the vaccine doesn't stop you transmitting the virus then is there a risk that this leads to more cases in the community as people don't know they have it as they are asymptomatic. I'm worried about taking the vaccine before my more vulnerable sister gets it. I can get it through my work now but hesitant because of this. Please also note I'm very pro vaccine just want to understand it a bit more. Thanks

The newer surely is to accept vaccination but maintain full protection arrangements until your sister has been vaccinated too?

Sorry - the answer

I'm worried about taking the vaccine before my more vulnerable sister gets it.

Why, lockdown rules still apply to the vaccinated 🤷‍♀️

You're infectious before you have symptoms anyway, so just continue to shield her until she's vaccinated too.

At the moment she needs care so can't always be a safe distance especially my mum who does most of her care. At the moment if we have symptoms we would obviously self isolate but if we have the vaccine then we wouldn't know whether we need to isolate or not. Me and my mum are both now eligible through work in the social care sector.

At the moment if we have symptoms we would obviously self isolate

But as a pp said, if you had covid you'd be infectious before symptoms appeared anyway, so there would be no difference in your situation.

But previously it would be a couple of days of not knowing before symptoms appear now it might be a longer period of time of not knowing if you are infectious. The same goes with service users I am visiting. They are more at risk from me are they not.

It's not that it doesn't stop you transmitting the virus. It's just that it's not been going long enough to have evidence that it does. The more people who take it the better.

My understanding is that the people who know more about these things than I do are reasonably hopeful that vaccination will reduce transmission. However, they are being cautious because it's not possible to know for sure until large numbers of people have been vaccinated and there has been enough time to observe the effect on infection rates.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-do-the-vaccines-stop-transmission-how-can-i-volunteer-to-help-your-questions-answered-12183087

The expert quoted in this Sky News report seems reasonably confident that the vaccines will reduce transmission.