I can’t conclude if the vaccine can stop the spread.
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than half of the cases of new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) are transmitted through asymptomatic patients. After all, it is advice that observing the distance guidelines is the best way to prevent it.
According to the Washington Post on the 8th, the CDC published the research results in the JAMA Network Open the day before.
Research shows that when the basic conditions are the same, 59% of all transmissions are through asymptomatic patients. This is the sum of 35% of people who have already infected other people before symptoms appear and 24% who do not develop symptoms at all.
CDC Deputy Director of Infectious Diseases Jay Butler, co-author of the study, said, “It is necessary to control the’quiet transmission’ caused by asymptomatic patients to catch the spread of the corona.” It is even more so with the advent,” he said.
The newspaper emphasized, “The research results support the fact that it is of utmost importance to follow the guidelines of the authorities to’wear a mask, wash your hands, maintain social distancing, and get corona tested, whether sick or not.” did.
Meanwhile, the newspaper added that the study failed to conclude whether the vaccine could prevent transmission. In the clinical trials of Modena and Pfizer’s’Messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA)’ vaccine, the preventive ability was highly evaluated, but it was not answered as to whether it could spread the corona even after getting the vaccine.
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