Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)

[Deesse23]

.. there's no evidence yet that the vaccines can provide herd immunity - they prevent the disease they don't stop you catching the virus itself.

100% verifiably wrong


https://biontech.de/covid-19-portal/mrna-vaccines

If a vaccinated person later comes into contact with SARS-CoV-2, the immune system will recognize the surface structure and will be able to combat the virus and eliminate it. Neutralizing antibodies targeted at SARS-CoV-2 are circulating in your body and will immediately bind to the virus, “neutralize” it and prevent it from entering the cell, thus protecting you from getting sick. T cells help the immune system to fight intracellular infections and can also kill the infected cells directly.

prevent it from entering the cell = the virus can not multiply

A virus that enters your body cant infect your cells, thus cant reproduce, thus it will *die*. All you have is the original viruses that have infected your body, being *alive* for as long as they can last, but they cant repoduce. On top of that, potentially infected cells will be killed as well.

I know it's a bitter pill, but Aractus is correct.  There is some preliminary data that suggests the vaccines may slow the spread, but they absolutely do not stop it.  Some vaccines prevent infection, such as the measles vaccine, but not all vaccines do that.  None of the current COVID vaccines prevent infection, and therefore they do not prevent spread.  Even with reduced infection rates, they will not likely provide herd immunity (which turns out to be a concept that doesn't work well with something as infectious and mutable as Covid anyway.  It applies more to things, again, like Measles.)

Study in Israel (sample size: >1mio) shows that Biontech vaccine prevents people from being infectuous.
Israel also reports an efficiency of the vaccine of 96%. It prevents heavy (and lethal) cases by 99%