Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters
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first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
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No, we don't know that's true.
In fact, there is evidence that it's possible to be protected from disease, but still to actually get the virus.
We knew that was possible before from the phenomenon of asymptomatic infection, where people could be carrying the disease but not show any symptoms.
So you can't assume that if you've had the vaccine that you're 100% protected from being able to pass the virus on.
And what they found was that in the vaccinated group, there was protection from getting the virus, in other words, turning up a positive test with the swab.
So there were perhaps 100 people who swabbed positive in the vaccine group still.
But compared to the control group, which had 190 people, that was an improvement.
So there's about 46% protection from getting the virus, on top of the fact that you've got protection from getting severe disease.
At this point in time, I think we are still waiting for some more data.
I do think that it will have an impact on case numbers, but it's very important that at this point, while we don't know, we keep our distancing and we keep up with all the measures.
I know it's miserable for people
But until we can be sure how much protection we'll get from the vaccine in terms of transmission, we need both.
We need the vaccine and we also need the current measures that we're taking.
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