How single dose vaccinated infections and the unvaccinated conceivably combine to make stopping covid harder:
1. Someone with a single dose of Pfizer or (more likely) AZ gets covid.
2. Their body mounts a half-assed vaccine-learned (based off original variant) response.
1/x
1. Someone with a single dose of Pfizer or (more likely) AZ gets covid.
2. Their body mounts a half-assed vaccine-learned (based off original variant) response.
1/x
2. (continued) The “half” vaccinated person gets some protection but not enough to quickly shut down the virus and they end up being symptomatic and transmissible to others. They’ve also “trained” the virus to fight the vaccine’s half-assed response.
2/x
2/x
3. They give their trained virus to someone unvaccinated. Unvaccinated body has no training against the virus so it goes like wildfire. This person ends up being a vector for a super charged vaccine-trained infection that can be given to even fully vaccinated.
3/x
3/x
So this speculative but makes evolutionary sense. We know that viruses evolve and if you weaken a species, whether it’s bacteria or an animal, if you don’t wipe it out, it adapts to the stressor.
4/5
4/5
All this is to say, vaccinating BEFORE a pandemic is different than vaccinating DURING one.
And secondly, it was probably a huge mistake for the UK and others to go with the “single dose for everyone before full vaccination” strategy.
We’ll see what happens.
5/5
And secondly, it was probably a huge mistake for the UK and others to go with the “single dose for everyone before full vaccination” strategy.
We’ll see what happens.
5/5
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