Vaccinated shed virus just like unvaccinated
Just another mark against COVID vaccination
On September 30, 2022, PLOS Pathogens published an important new article originally submitted in 2021, “Shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2 despite vaccination.” The lead author is Kasen K. Riemersma who is a Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. According to this research, the Delta variant caused a surge of COVID-19 cases including among the vaccinated, due to partial immune escape. The authors set out to see if those who are both vaccinated and infected can transmit the virus. To this end, they compared PCR cycle threshold data from 20,431 positive nasal swab specimens which included 9,347 from fully vaccinated people and 11,084 from those unvaccinated. They found no significant effect of vaccine status on the PCR cycle values, across the different available vaccines. This means that they found “infectious virus at similar rates, and at similar titers, in specimens from vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.” In turn, this indicates that the vaccinated do shed virus, and “could play a role in spreading COVID-19.”
Many people have known or suspected this for some time.
Source here.
Good to have a confirmation data point on this. There are still a lot of vax true believers out there who think the shots stop transmission and the virus is only still circulating because of dammed dirty apes...er, I mean unvaxxed.
Terrific post! Thank you.
From their study:
"Risk disinhibition may lead vaccinated people to increase behaviors that expose them to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and individuals who are infected despite vaccination could serve as sources of onward transmission to others. Vaccinated individuals, particularly those who may have high levels of community or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, should be encouraged to continue frequent testing, especially when symptomatic, to limit community spread. Continued adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as masking and distancing, will remain important for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals because we cannot predict which vaccinated individuals will experience infections with high viral loads."
Plus, can the jab, itself, via some mechanism, such as exosomes, transmit some unknown or unknowable agent?
Thanks again!