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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
IDK. My understanding is that the vaccine does not prevent one from getting sick or getting others sick, only from getting an acute case. So you would expect to see the effect in the mortality rate.
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Your understanding is partially wrong. It does generally, prevent the vaccinated from getting sick, once it kicks in.
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The Pfizer vaccine showed efficacy of 95% at preventing symptomatic Covid infection, measured starting from seven days after the second dose was administered.
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The Moderna vaccine was 94.1% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19, measured starting from 14 days after the second dose.
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But you are correct in that
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It’s not yet known if either prevents asymptomatic infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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