Not exactly. You can be vaccinated and carry the virus (carrier). But if the viral load is so low you can't transmit (not a transmitter) spread is blocked and we move onto the pandemic exit ramp.
No transmitters, no 😷s
How do you know if you are a likely transmitter?
You do a rapid home antigen test that detects high viral load.
The tests that should have been made freely available to all many months ago, 2 finally cleared by FDA yesterday, but they are much too expensive (~$10 each)
Post-vaccination PCR tests are of low value, just detecting any level of virus or its remnants, reported as + or -. A low Ct result (high viral load) from the PCR would be useful, but rarely provided.
Rapid antigen tests provide what we really want to know—am I transmitter?

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What a good Friday!
First 4.0M vaccine day in the US
Hitting 4.0 M in a day gets the average now to 3.0M
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CDC tally from this morning
Approaching 40% of adults, 75% of seniors, with at least 1 dose
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How to be a superhuman vs. #SARSCoV2?
Get vaccinated
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1. Levels of neutralizing antibody for vaccine >> natural infection
2. Protection w/ vaccine additive to prior infection
3. Protection vs. variants: vaccine > natural immunity
4. Less reinfection
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Just as was seen in Israel, vaccination protection for older individuals with case and hospitalizations predominantly in younger, non-vaccinated. And reminder: the vaccines work very well vs B.1.1.7 freep.com/story/news/loc…
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Very good news @NEJM today on vaccine effectiveness in the US and Israeli healthcare workforce
1. @UTSWNews health system over 23,000 employees, 70% vaccinated, had a dramatic reduction of infections
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2. And similarly @UCSDHealth @UCLAHealth over 36,000 health care workers were vaccinated nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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This @AstraZeneca statement in response to the @NIH press release is unacceptable. They know exactly what is going on w/r to the time cutoff for 1° analysis, which appears to be at odds with the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board. It should not take 48 hrs to sort out
The DSMB, consisting of 11 independent experts who have been overseeing the trial from its outset through its completion, says the primary analysis showed efficacy between 69-74%. Let's see all the data @AstraZeneca washingtonpost.com/world/astrazen…
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The Astra Zeneca vaccine turmoil as headlines today and tomorrow
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