i don t know what to believe any more. well, actually, madi, this is a great example of why we need to put this in better context for people. those two data points are not in conflict with one another. so the test that showed equivalent viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated people is one that looks at copies of the viral genome. it doesn t look at copies of infectious virus. if we think back to how the immune system works, the immune system responds to vaccines by essentially putting your immune system on stand by for another exposure. it s not a magical force field that will keep you from getting infected. but if you do become infected, you will clear that infection much more quickly. and that is consistent with what the data from singapore shows. again, i d like to remind everybody the situation in province town was mostly a highly vaccinated community. so you are going to see more cases in fully vaccinated people t. was also in the context of an event that had a situatio
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been alarmist? i do think the reaction has been somewhat alarmist because i think that we haven t really put these data into context for people. so, yes, the delta variant is more transmissible. yes, it does have a basic viral reproduction number that s not equivalent to chicken pox and other diseases that are more transmissible than the original recipe sars coronavirus 2. however, we do know that vaccination does provide excellent protection against severe disease. so that s largely rising in unvaccinated people. so it still stands the best protection for you against the dealt air variant is to get vaccinated. people have been concerned because of the news vaccinated people can transmit the virus to unvaccinated people.
however, we don t have data that suggests vaccinated people with those equivalent viral loads are transmitting the virus onto other vaccinated people. the majority of the risk is to unvaccinated people. so on that note, a major part of that cdc report was based on what happened in province town, massachusetts, where there was a high degree of transmission among fully vaccinated people and that study showed no significant difference in the viral load in breakthrough cases, people who double vaccinate and get covid, versus unvaccinated cases. people were shocked by this. then there is a new study from singapore showing viral loads decrease faster among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. i wonder how should a layperson react to this ever evolving sometimes contradictory science? how can they stay informed when there seems to be such a great
area of i don t know what to believe any more. well, actually, this is a great example of why we need to put this in better context for people. those two data points are not in conflict with one another. so the test that showed equivalent viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated people is one that looks at copies of the viral genome. it doesn t look at copies of infectious virus. if we think back to how the immune system works, the immune system responds to vaccines by essentially putting your immune system on stand by for another exposure. it s not a magical force field that will keep you from getting infected. but if you do become infected, you will clear that infection much more quickly. and that is consistent with what the data from singapore shows. again, i d like to remind everybody the situation in province town was mostly a highly vaccinated community. so you are going to see more cases in fully vaccinated people and it was also in the context of an event that had si