A 900-person Covid delta cluster in Massachusetts includes 74% vaccinated people

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@bcsizemo

I’m confused here. To my understanding none of the vaccines prevent you from being infected. They prime your immune system to deal with a novel virus itself, essentially acting as a catalyst. Which means it was going to be like this. Perhaps if everyone was vaccinated in a very short order (perhaps less than a month window) you’d see a fairly sizeable drop in severe cases, but the virus would still be out in the population. It is exactly the same as a flu vaccine. The goal is to reduce your symptoms, not prevent your body from becoming infected.

THIS!

Nobody (CDC, Fauchi, etc) ever claimed that getting vaccinated would prevent you from catching it. It’s not a big whole-body condom. All they ever said was that it would protect you from severe illness when you are infected (instead of dying, you only get really really sick, or instead of getting really really sick, you just get mildly sick), because the vaccine gave your body a head start at fighting it off. They did hold out hope that the vaccine would help your body fight it off quickly enough to lower your “viral payload”, so that you didn’t have much virus in you to spread to others. But Delta has gotten around that limitation by being so severely contagious.