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by hdjjhhvvhga 1648 days ago
> "Remains unclear" is very different from "no impact on transmission rates".

Well, at least within households[0]:

> Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to those they share a home with

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/covid-vaccinat...

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The first sentence of the article is that it's about "People who are fully vaccinated against Covid yet catch the virus". If the vaccines don't lower P(transmission|infection) but do lower P(infection), then they lower P(infection & transmission) (because that's the product of those two).