Covid-19-vaccine-was-never-tested-to-prevent-transmission
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ElwoodBlues · M
NOT ACCURATE. Covid 19 vaccines were tested for transmission AFTER initial deployment. And YES, they DO greatly reduce transmission.
(1) Basic germ theory tells you that people who aren't carrying an infectious disease can't spread it. The vaccine trials tested via serologic & virologic evidence that they stopped the original alpha variant in about 95% of people. If you're not infected with the virus, you can't shed the virus and thus can't infect other people.
(2) Once vaccination had begun, they DID examine the vaccine's effect on transmission. And the vaccine did GREATLY REDUCE transmission.
See https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298
Also see this much larger study also showing very significant transmission reduction
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597
Pfizer phase 3 trial of 45,000 subjects
"Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
Pfizer animal trial
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03275-y
Again, if you're not infected with the virus, you can't shed the virus and thus can't infect other people. Stopping the virus DOES stop transmission. This is why they didn't test any of the other major vaccines for transmission in their phase 3 trials either. Not measles, not rubella, not tetanus, not diptheria, not polio, not smallpox.
AFTERwards, presumably, transmission data was examined. Smallpox was eradicated because stopping infection stops transmission. Polio was almost eradicated on the same grounds although it's now creeping back into anti-vax communities. But that's another story.
(1) Basic germ theory tells you that people who aren't carrying an infectious disease can't spread it. The vaccine trials tested via serologic & virologic evidence that they stopped the original alpha variant in about 95% of people. If you're not infected with the virus, you can't shed the virus and thus can't infect other people.
(2) Once vaccination had begun, they DID examine the vaccine's effect on transmission. And the vaccine did GREATLY REDUCE transmission.
See https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298
A study2 of covid-19 transmission within English households using data gathered in early 2021 found that even a single dose of a covid-19 vaccine reduced the likelihood of household transmission by 40-50%. This was supported by a study of household transmission among Scottish healthcare workers conducted between December 2020 and March 2021.3 Both studies analysed the impact of vaccination on transmission of the α variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was dominant at the time.
Also see this much larger study also showing very significant transmission reduction
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597
Pfizer phase 3 trial of 45,000 subjects
"Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
A two-dose regimen of BNT162b2 conferred 95% protection against Covid-19 in persons 16 years of age or older. Safety over a median of 2 months was similar to that of other viral vaccines. (Funded by BioNTech and Pfizer; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04368728.)
Pfizer animal trial
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03275-y
Again, if you're not infected with the virus, you can't shed the virus and thus can't infect other people. Stopping the virus DOES stop transmission. This is why they didn't test any of the other major vaccines for transmission in their phase 3 trials either. Not measles, not rubella, not tetanus, not diptheria, not polio, not smallpox.
AFTERwards, presumably, transmission data was examined. Smallpox was eradicated because stopping infection stops transmission. Polio was almost eradicated on the same grounds although it's now creeping back into anti-vax communities. But that's another story.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues So now you want to argue with the pfizer executive who made the statement? You truly are not very bright. Let me guess you are a facebook fact checker that everyone laughs at.
ElwoodBlues · M
@hippyjoe1955 Nope. Can't you read?? Pfizer didn't study transmission, but national health depts did. It's really not very complicated. See
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597