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| DATE | 2021-02-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Vaccinations and Lockdowns and the Faucci Fanatism
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/vaccinations-have-to-bring-liberation-from-strict-lockdown-rules/
Vaccinations Have to Bring Liberation from Strict Lockdown Rules
By JIM GERAGHTY
February 22, 2021 1:25 PM
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A healthcare worker draws a coronavirus vaccine from a vial at the
Mission Commons assisted living community in Redlands, Calif., January
15, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
More good news: If you are one of the millions of Americans who received
one shot of the Pfizer vaccine, a new study suggests that the single
dose you received “was shown to be 85 percent effective in preventing
symptomatic disease 15 to 28 days” later. You should still get that
second shot, but that first one gets you more than halfway there.
The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, among others, worries that public-health
experts (as well as “experts”) are currently attempting to
simultaneously communicate two messages. The first is that even those
who are fully vaccinated need to consistently wear a mask, keep six feet
away from others, avoid crowds, and continue to live with the
restrictions that have become commonplace during this pandemic. The
second message is that everybody ought to get vaccinated, because it’s
so important. Unsurprisingly, the first message is undermining the
reception to the second message.
Once you’re fully vaccinated, can you still spread the virus? The short
answer is that medical researchers are still trying to nail that down,
but the preliminary evidence from one study in Israel is that
vaccination reduces the transmission of the virus by a lot — maybe not
completely, but something along the lines of 89 percent. We will know
more as more people get vaccinated, giving researchers more real-world
data. But it makes sense: The immune system in a body that is prepared
to fight off SARS-CoV-2 by a vaccine is going to defeat and eliminate
the virus quickly, giving the virus much less time to replicate and shed
from the vaccinated person’s body. That immune response probably won’t
be fast enough or effective enough to completely eliminate any shed
viruses in everyone, but it will have a dramatic effect.
As Dr. Paul Sax, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and
an infectious disease specialist, put it in the New England Journal of
Medicine:
There are several good reasons to be optimistic about the vaccines’
effect on disease transmission. First, in the Moderna trial. opens in
new tab, participants underwent nasopharyngeal swab PCR testing at
baseline and again at week 4, when they returned for their second dose.
Among those who were negative at baseline and without symptoms, 39
(0.3%) in the placebo group and 15 (0.1%) in the mRNA-1273 group had
nasopharyngeal swabs that were positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR at week 4.
These data suggest that even after one dose, the vaccine has a
protective effect in preventing asymptomatic infection. Among those who
do get infection after vaccination, furthermore, it appears that viral
loads are lower than in infected people who have not been immunized.
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Second, findings from population-based studies now suggest that people
without symptoms are less likely to transmit the virus to others. Third,
many vaccines in wide use powerfully protect against both disease and
transmission, so much so that infection control is one of the main
motivators behind some vaccine policies. opens in new tab.
If we can reduce virus transmission by almost 90 percent, we’re going to
see the daily new case number — already down from more than 250,000 in
mid January to about 70,000 in the past week — drop like a stone.
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Should the fully vaccinated continue to wear masks? For now, sure, but
not really because we should worry about the danger of infections to the
vaccinated or that small chance of spreading it to others. For at least
a little while longer, the fully vaccinated should keep wearing masks
because we don’t want a society where our vaccinated go without masks
while the unvaccinated have to keep wearing masks. We also don’t want a
society where supermarket and other retail employees have to check the
mask-free patrons for their vaccination cards.
The vaccination process has not been smooth or easy or user-friendly;
getting an appointment is still partially a matter of being in the right
place at the right time. If you’re lucky enough to be in the early waves
of the vaccinated, you wouldn’t want to gloat to your friends and
neighbors who are still waiting.
Right now, millions of Americans who want to get vaccinated cannot yet
get an appointment. At some point in the coming months, we will reach
the point where everyone who wants to get a vaccine can get one without
a wait — and then, I suspect, the public attitudes about a lot of these
restrictions will shift dramatically. At that point, the adults who
remain unvaccinated will be those who chose not to, or that small
minority of people who have severe allergic reactions to the vaccine
ingredients.
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