CDC, FDA and others worldwide, all have documented the fact that the fully vaccinated can still carry and transmit the virus and still require masking in certain circumstances regardless of vax status.
OSHA is requiring business to discriminate their employees to force vaccination. It has zero to do with actually protecting workers.
COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and immunogenicity
Last Updated September 15th 2021
Immunogenicity is the generation of effective protective immunity against a vaccine antigen as measured by laboratory tests. Vaccine efficacy refers to how well a vaccine performs in a carefully controlled clinical trial, and effectiveness describes its performance in real-world observational studies. Evidence demonstrates that the approved or authorized COVID-19 vaccines are both efficacious and effective against symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, including severe forms of the disease. In addition, as shown below, a growing body of evidence suggests that COVID-19 vaccines also reduce asymptomatic infection and transmission. Substantial reductions in SARS-CoV-2 infections (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) will reduce overall levels of disease, and therefore, SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission in the United States.
Investigations are
ongoing to further assess the risk of transmission from fully vaccinated persons with SARS-CoV-2 infections to other vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Early evidence suggests infections in fully vaccinated persons caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be transmissible to others;
however, SARS-CoV-2 transmission between unvaccinated persons is the primary cause of continued spread.
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By the summer of next year...they'll have more data to give a more accurate assessment about Covid transmission from those that are Vaccinated versus those that are Not Vaccinated.
- They do know those Not Vaccinated are more of a threat to transmit Covid to others. Most new diseases it takes a few years to get enough data. Until then, they react to the data that they do have even if its small.
Yet, I wouldn't worry about getting Covid from someone that's vaccinated unless you're indoors, unventilated room, the person not wearing a face mask while you're not vaccinated...a little more worried if the vaccinated person is also immune-compromised and has underlying medical conditions.
Then again, if you were vaccinated, you'll have a lot less to worry about your own safety. Until then, there's the below article from the Atlantic.
How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread COVID?
Vaccination is the best protection against infection. But when breakthroughs do occur, a very basic question still has an
unsatisfying answer.
By
Yasmin Tayag
November 8th 2021
The fear of breakthrough COVID-19 infections spoiled the summer. In the early days of vaccine bliss, many Americans had thought that the shots were a ticket to normalcy—and at least for a while, that’s precisely what public-health experts were telling us: Sure, it was still possible for vaccinated people to get COVID-19, but you wouldn’t have to worry much about spreading it to anyone else. Interim guidance shared by the CDC in March stated that these cases “
likely pose little risk of transmission,” and a few weeks later, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that “
vaccinated people do not carry the virus.”
And then came Delta. The hyper-contagious variant sent cases skyrocketing and led ICUs to yet again fill up with COVID patients. And it also spurred a full-on freak-out that our understanding of who could spread the virus was all wrong. In early August, the CDC
published its findings on a huge cluster of COVID cases in Provincetown, Massachusetts, concluding that 74 percent of cases had occurred in vaccinated people.
The supposed implication of that finding was even more ominous: Vaccinated people were
just as likely to spread the virus as the unvaccinated. The CDC quickly went back to recommending that vaccinated people wear masks indoors while news outlets ran headlines such as “
Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread the Delta Variant, CDC Says.” The worst-case scenario—that vaccinated people might be going about their lives only to be seeding tons of new coronavirus cases—all of a sudden seemed possible.
Three months later, we have fortunately not seen this doomsday scenario come to pass—the fears raised by the Provincetown report were largely overblown. But that doesn’t mean that the vaccinated are in the clear, either. Breakthrough infections
are still happening, and they can lead to transmission. But we still don’t know just how widely that spread actually happens...
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