JRPGfan said:
Gotta admit if I get options, I'd rather not have one of the mRNA vaccines. |
At least they're testing it out on the most vulnerable first...
Here they're already warning that you will still need to wear masks and continue social distancing
Because the leading vaccine makers don’t know yet if their vaccines will prevent transmission of the virus, infectious disease specialists said it’s important for people to continue to wear face masks and follow public health advice even after they’ve been immunized.
“There’s nothing there [in Pfizer’s data] that suggests that people are less transmissible. All we know is individuals who got the vaccine had less symptomatic disease than people who didn’t get the vaccine.” Chagla added the trials also showed that individuals who received the vaccine tended to have less severe disease than those who weren’t vaccinated or received a placebo.
Chagla said data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the Pfizer vaccine showed that it can take some time before a vaccine will be protective against the disease.
“You see some of the divergence between people who weren’t vaccinated and who were around day 20 to 28 after the first dose, so it does take some time, meaning you can get COVID the day after you get vaccinated,” he said.
Ostrowski said the length of time people will be required to wear masks will also depend on how quickly countries are able to vaccinate their populations.
“It’s going to take a while to vaccinate everyone, especially since these new vaccines are very difficult to both distribute and keep stable,” he said.
The effects (masks, distancing, vaccines) will stack anyway, should curb the spread faster the more people become less transmissible. Unless it creates more asymptomatic spreaders that don't know they have it, convinced they can't have it, and thus keep on going on their normal routine. At least it will vastly reduce hospitalizations and deaths. But ironically there's a possibility it becomes less safe for those who have not yet been vaccinated.