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by ultrafez 2012 days ago
You being vaccinated only cuts off the path that the virus can take to somebody if the vaccine gives you sterilising immunity - otherwise, it may just prevent you experiencing disease symptoms, but not stop you being infectious.

There isn't enough evidence yet to understand whether the leading vaccines induce sterilising immunity yet. As such, we can't rely on these vaccines to give us herd immunity.

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Reinfection rates are 0.01% per a recent study out of Qatar. So even if we all "get" the infection after being vaccinated, our own immune response should prevent reinfection for at least 6 months in 99.9% of cases.
Can you explain what you think this means?
Get COVID don't get COVID again.