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View submission: Monthly Scientific Discussion Thread - December 2024
Early on in the pandemic, there was some focus on vaccines effectiveness to prevent transmission altogether. As the virus developed, the focus on this seemed to go by the wayside in favor of studying the effectiveness in lessening case severity.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding/misremembering: while there were some early studies suggesting that the vaccine helped stop transmission, the data and recommendation revolved around symptom severity from the very beginning. I think was a major point of confusion back then and continues to be.
That said, here is a study from last year indicating that the vaccines still reduce transmission to some extent:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10073587/[1][2]
1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10073587/
2: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10073587/
Comment by js1138-2 at 28/12/2024 at 05:30 UTC
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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-12432-x
The development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines provides a clear path to bring the pandemic to an end. Vaccination rates, however, have been insufficient to prevent disease spread.
From 2022.
Comment by poormrblue at 14/12/2024 at 18:02 UTC
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Thank you.