So I really don’t want to start vax/anti-vax war thread here but read this and don’t know what to make of it.
I was very hesitant taking my first jab due to being unsure of long term effects given that in my age range and having no underlying health conditions I had a very low risk of serious Covid implications for hospitalisation or death.
The vax has created a real division but I felt if I didn’t have it, I’d be labelled stupid and selfish largely at work (I work in a large organisation) so felt this weird societal pressure to have it and haven’t felt entirely comfortable since. I’m soon due my second and even more conflicted since one part says I’ve had my first so should just have second to get my “Covid passport” which looks like it’s coming but at the same time getting deeply concerned with how much the Govt are pushing this jab.
Anyway, all aside, one thing I’ve read until now is that the jab can reduce risk of serious illness and also reduce transmission and that’s why I read on here that people with low risk and kids may get the jab (to reduce transmission) and save those at high risk.
I just read the article below. It’s a live feed so I’ve copied the relevant section. This is implying that those double vaccinated can just as easily spread Covid(4th paragraph). Am I reading that right? If so, what does it do for the low risk people and why are the Govt pushing so much? I think it talks about draft papers so maybe this hasn’t hit the majority of the public yet and maybe yet to be verified?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jul/30/coronavirus-live-news-philippines-locks-down-13-million-in-manila-japan-to-expand-state-of-emergency?page=with:block-6104191d8f089093df86f326#block-6104191d8f089093df86f326
“Delta variant of Covid not more deadly than original strains, says WHO
Higher rates of mortality have not been recorded from the Delta variant, said Maria van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization technical lead on Covid-19, suggesting that while it may be more transmissible this does not necessarily equate to a greater death risk.
She said that the Delta variant is about 50% more transmissible than ancestral strains of Sars-CoV-2, that first emerged in China in late 2019. A few countries have reported increased hospitalisation rates but higher rates of mortality have not been recorded from the Delta variant, she said.
However, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents obtained by the Washington Post today cite studies from Canada, Singapore and Scotland showing that the Delta variant may pose a greater risk for the worst health outcomes than the Alpha variant first detected in the UK.
The paper cites “a combination of recently obtained, still-unpublished data from outbreak investigations and outside studies showing that vaccinated individuals infected with Delta may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated. Vaccinated people infected with Delta have measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated and infected with the variant.”
WHO’s top emergency expert Mike Ryan also said that WHO-approved vaccines remain effective against the disease, despite growing real-world evidence of their waning efficacy.
“The vaccines currently approved by the WHO all provide significant protection against severe disease and hospitalisation,” he said. “We are fighting the same virus but a virus that has become faster and better adapted to transmitting amongst us humans, that’s the change.”
The CDC documents show that since January, people who got infected after vaccination make up an increasing portion of hospitalisations and in-hospital deaths among Covid-19 patients, the Associated Press reports.
Van Kerkhove added that Covid-19 variants are not targeting children in the UK“