If it turns out that the 2 vaccines do not prevent transmission and so their effects are limited to being just a pre-infection treatment useful only to suppress symptoms when they do get infected, then the overall effect of people who are inoculated with their vaccine will be to create an additional new group of asymptomatic spreaders when large numbers of those vaccinated people inevitably get infected.
The 5-10% or so who get no symptom relief from the vaccine along with the unvaccinated population would be at higher risk of contracting the virus if the 2 vax create more asymptomatic spreaders. That would provide an incentive to take the vax for many people currently undecided about it, because it is better to get infected with no symptoms than risk getting bad symptoms.
".... said Ed Mills, a Vancouver-based clinical trials expert and part-time McMaster University professor "It’s going to hopefully prevent people from getting sick, but it’s not going to stop transmission. That’s not what they measured.”
"And it may surprise some that the impressive efficacy rates claimed by both manufacturers are not for the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection. Detailed trial protocols, though not the news releases, indicate the phase-3 clinical trials primarily tracked cases where participants actually developed symptomatic disease."
This is the 4th time so its reading comprehension or else you know more than Mills, the trials expert, because the whole article was about the fact that the trial hadn't proven and hadn't reviewed your claim that you keep posting >>"the virus can't replicate."
sb ....hope all "hidden" symptoms are also prevented from damaging the body.
Depends on what you consider the best. Moderna is not proven to prevent Covid and no one knows if there are long term effects in store for people who contracted Covid with mild or no symptoms. Lots of people with no symptoms get "hidden" cardiac issues from Covid - but the long term studies haven't been completed to determine if the cardiac issues are permanent or something people recover from. Same with other body organs. If a large number of people are vaxxed with what turns out to be effectively a pre-infection symptom preventer but those people turn into asymptomatic transmitters then you better hope all "hidden" symptoms are also prevented. More asymptomatic spreader means many more people will get the disease but the important question not answered yet is, will it matter?
If mass scale vax to quickly cover the world and possibly stomp it out everywhere (depending on uptake) is what a person considers the best measure, then the logistics are best for world scale vax using AstraZeneca. Cheap, proven to prevent disease, easy to store and one article said they could produce billions of doses in the next year.
News today on a third vax. Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health at the University of Oxford tweeted: "Oxford jab is far cheaper, and is easier to store and get to every corner of the world than the other two." Article "Oxford jab hailed as ‘vaccine for the world’" quotes Horby saying unlike the other 2, Oxford jab has already been proven to also prevent infection.
And it may surprise some that the impressive efficacy rates claimed by both manufacturers are not for the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection. Detailed trial protocols, though not the news releases, indicate the phase-3 clinical trials primarily tracked cases where participants actually developed symptomatic disease.
Studies have estimated that 20 to 80 per cent of people who contract the virus causing COVID never experience symptoms, yet can still potentially transmit the disease to others.
“The problem is that the messaging is very different than what the public is being told,” said Ed Mills, a Vancouver-based clinical trials expert and part-time McMaster University professor. “We’re told this is going to end the pandemic. It’s not going to end the pandemic. It’s going to hopefully prevent people from getting sick, but it’s not going to stop transmission. That’s not what they measured.”
https://www.healthing.ca/health/not-going-to-end-the-pandemic-why-those-hopeful-vaccine-trial-results-are-not-all-that-they-seem/wcm/4c7222e1-3394-4196-94f7-613f5feab5c0