Coronavirus vaccines are proven to significantly reduce COVID severity, and while it hasn’t been proven many doctors believe vaccination reduces transmissibility as well.
Ochsner System Medical Director of Hospital Quality Dr. Sandra Kemmerly said if you are vaccinated then your body will immediately start fighting any virus you come into contact with.
“As so if I am able to neutralize that virus and that virus is not able to reproduce in my body and my cells then I am not able to transmit that virus asymptomatically,” said Kemmerly.
Lead Johnson and Johnson researchers believe the vaccine limits asymptomatic disease by 74 percent.
Kemmerly said the reason why they can’t confirm this fact is that transmissibility is a harder endpoint to measure in clinical trials, and thus wasn’t studied as closely as other focuses.
“I would suspect, and it is our hope, that all of these (vaccines) will diminish the spread and contagiousness from one person to another especially after they have been vaccinated,” said Kemmerly.
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