Coronavirus COVID-19 News specific to South Africa

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People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are far less likely to infect others, despite the arrival of the delta variant, several studies show. The findings refute the idea, which has become common in some circles, that vaccines no longer do much to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“They absolutely do reduce transmission,” says Christopher Byron Brooke at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Vaccinated people do transmit the virus in some cases, but the data are super crystal-clear that the risk of transmission for a vaccinated individual is much, much lower than for an unvaccinated individual.”

A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated.

This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people.​


What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place.

De Gier and her team used data from the Netherlands’ contact tracing system to work out the so-called secondary attack rate – the proportion of contacts infected by positive cases. They then worked out how much this was reduced by vaccination, adjusting for factors such as age.

De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall.
 

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I am going for my first shot today. I must admit - I am nervous. I see on Dischem's site they recommend 6 months before getting the vaccine. So not really sure what to think. Really hope I don't get blood clots.
 

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I am going for my first shot today. I must admit - I am nervous. I see on Dischem's site they recommend 6 months before getting the vaccine. So not really sure what to think. Really hope I don't get blood clots.
I hope it all goes swimmingly for you, and that you don't have any side effects. 🤗
 

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People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are far less likely to infect others, despite the arrival of the delta variant, several studies show. The findings refute the idea, which has become common in some circles, that vaccines no longer do much to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“They absolutely do reduce transmission,” says Christopher Byron Brooke at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Vaccinated people do transmit the virus in some cases, but the data are super crystal-clear that the risk of transmission for a vaccinated individual is much, much lower than for an unvaccinated individual.”

A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated.

This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people.​


What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place.

De Gier and her team used data from the Netherlands’ contact tracing system to work out the so-called secondary attack rate – the proportion of contacts infected by positive cases. They then worked out how much this was reduced by vaccination, adjusting for factors such as age.

De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall.
Just an interest sake thing, this is reduction in chance of being symptomatic based on what vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna got grouped together but Moderna is a little bit more extreme. Note this is vs non-vaccinated being symptomatic, and it's reduction in chance, not chance to be.
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Not South Africa specific, but would say worldwide fine, so can go in this thread. Above is why Austria is changing to you need another vaccine shot after J&J and J&J doesn't count as fully vaccinated past 3 Jan (got mine a few weeks ago, J&J first in June, and just had Pfizer as second).
 

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I am going for my first shot today. I must admit - I am nervous. I see on Dischem's site they recommend 6 months before getting the vaccine. So not really sure what to think. Really hope I don't get blood clots.

You should be fine, I've had three shots of Pfizer now and other than becoming slightly magnetic I'm perfectly fine.
 

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Overstrand active cases (Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford and Gansbaai)

27 Nov 41
<-- 2nd wave start
29 Nov 64
7 Dec 98
9 Dec 122
11 Dec 138
14 Dec 207
17 Dec 287
18 Dec 314
21 Dec 376
23 Dec 481
24 Dec 559
28 Dec 661
30 Dec 623
31 Dec 748
4 Jan 733
6 Jan 678
8 Jan 734
11 Jan 507
14 Jan 656
18 Jan 759
20 Jan 511
22 Jan 482
25 Jan 478
27 Jan 418
29 Jan 422
1 Feb 160
3 Feb 161
8 Feb 123
10 Feb 114
12 Feb 105
15 Feb 82
19 Feb 68
24 Feb 67
26 Feb 65
5 Mar 49
<-- 2nd wave end
8 Mar 40
12 Mar 40
15 Mar 35
19 Mar 24
26 Mar 14
29 Mar 17
6 Apr 20
12 Apr 14
19 Apr 11
26 Apr 6
3 May 21
6 May 35
14 May 28
21 May 37
28 May 42
<-- 3rd wave start
4 Jun 82
18 Jun 199
21 Jun 250
23 Jun 273
28 Jun 438
2 Jul 515
5 Jul 505
7 Jul 599
9 Jul 600
14 Jul 551
19 Jul 630
21 Jul 414
23 Jul 475
26 Jul 453
28 Jul 452
30 Jul 519
4 Aug 481
10 Aug 356
13 Aug 335
16 Aug 321
18 Aug 322
23 Aug 290
27 Aug 362
30 Aug 380
1 Sep 411
6 Sep 489
8 Sep 523
13 Sep 311
15 Sep 323
20 Sep 328
22 Sep 122
29 Sep 74
7 Oct 47
<-- 3rd wave end
20 Oct 34
3 Nov 8
24 Nov 4
 
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