The bigger problem to us now is the large number of vaccine resistant folks who have refused to get regular vaccines (MMR etc) for their children over the past year. Those numbers are truly scary and will come back to bite us hard.
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Maybe the confusion is that the vaccines prevent SERIOUS illness, not all illness.I thought what the vaccine was proven to do was to prevent illness (symptoms)
Maybe the confusion is that the vaccines prevent SERIOUS illness, not all illness.
Well, tridacna can correct me, but my interpretation of what I posted from the CDC site and what the authorities have been telling us in the news media is that we the public can think of breakthrough cases as those in which a vaccinated person shows some symptoms (illness), but "for the purpose of this surveillance," as the CDC put it, the CDC can only count positive antigen tests as data.
I think you mean antibody, not antigen.the CDC can only count positive antigen tests as data
I think you mean antibody, not antigen.
Added: well. I guess it depends on when they are testing, and what they are testing for.
Antigen = do you have the active virus now?
Antibody = did you have a case of Covid-19 and are recovered?
I know a very small number of people manage to catch the virus despite being vaccinated. And of course your bunkmate on a cruise is the person you're most exposed to. Still... seems like quite a coincidence. I wonder if they were both really vaccinated.
The passengers and crew could be all vaccinated but it sounds like they're doing ports of call, which basically exposes them to unvaccinated persons.