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One dose of a Pfizer of AstraZeneca vaccine cut household transmission by up to 50% in a study.
Protection kicked in from 14 days after vaccination regardless of age, Public Health England said.
It remains unclear how long protection from one dose lasts for.
A single dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine cut the spread of coronavirus within a household by up to 50% in a new study.
People who had one dose of either vaccine were between 40% and 50% less likely to pass on the virus to people in their household, 21 days after the shot, compared to those who weren t vaccinated at all, the study authors from Public Health England said in a preprint paper posted Wednesday.
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