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If you’ve got 22 minutes to blow and are interested in the new vaccines then check out the video below.
The short version is the quote I’m including, which is not actually related to the video.
The two (vaccines) work "better than we almost dared to hope," NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told The Associated Press. "Science is working here, science has done something amazing”
https://www.emrap.org/hd/playlist/latest...erdiveinto
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There's obviously never any guarantee of anything. BUT...the example I've seen cited of where a vaccine prevents illness but not transmission is the meningococcal vaccine, which is for a bacteria. Bacteria can colonize you (for example in your nasal passages) and multiply without actually becoming pathogenic and activating an immune response, which allows them to be in droplets you expel. Viruses, on the other hand, must invade and burst cells in order to multiply, which is almost guaranteed to activate the immune system unless it's somehow done at a very low level.
The upshot is, it's not necessarily due to the type of vaccine, but what the pathogen is. And since this is a virus, it's relatively unlikely (not impossible!) that it can cause and infection and be transmissible even though a vaccinated person doesn't get sick. The fact that people with this coronavirus are often asymptomatic, and in fact most contagious before developing symptoms, might mean it's slightly more likely with this than other viruses, if that means it takes a while for the immune system to pick it up (even if you already have antibodies).
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Hawaii COVID vaccine timeline, where are you in line?
https://hawaiicovid19.com/vaccine/
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12-29-2020, 11:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-30-2020, 12:04 AM by kalakoa.)
Timeline assumes everyone wants the vaccine and that Hawaii will have enough by summer 2021. I don't believe either of those assumptions to be accurate.
Ran across this yesterday; suggests that maybe the vaccine prevents transmission, maybe it doesn't, too soon to know for sure:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/d...he-big-one
...and here we are with the "UK mutation" in the CONUS, despite lack of travel history:
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/12/2...-colorado/
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I don't believe either of those assumptions to be accurate.
suggests that maybe the vaccine prevents transmission, maybe it doesn't,
Sorry, I couldn’t find a link for the State of Hawaii’s COVID Your Guess Is As Good As Ours page, so I posted what was available.
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Hawaii's guess is based on a Federal estimate which has already been proven wrong, so the site should really be labeled "for entertainment purposes only".
Who says we don't have gambling in Hawaii?
