At present, in France, 5.9 million people have received 2 doses of vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: 8.8% of the French population is therefore fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Among the (many) questions that remain, there is that of transmission: can we still transmit the virus causing Covid-19 when we are vaccinated against the disease?
To answer this question, researchers from Public Health England (the British health agency, the equivalent across the Channel of Santé Publique France) conducted a large study among 57,000 Britons: these belonged to 24,000 households where (at least) one person vaccinated against Covid- 19 had tested positive for the disease.
A lower risk of transmitting the coronavirus to loved ones when you are vaccinated
Because yes, even after vaccination, it is still possible to be contaminated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus since the main objective of vaccines is to reduce the risk of developing a serious form of Covid-19. …
Results? British researchers have measured that, if it remains possible to catch the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus after having received 1 dose of vaccine against Covid-19 (AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNtech), people vaccinated (1 dose) against Covid-19 are 38% to 49% less likely to pass the virus on to their families compared to the rest of the population – regardless of age.
“That’s excellent newsreacts Dr. Morgane Bomsel, immunologist at the Cochin Institute, questioned by our colleagues fromEuropean 1. According to other studies, from the first dose [de vaccin]we can observe a reduction in transmission of about 75% compared to people who are not vaccinated.” A reduction in transmission which is undoubtedly even greater with the second dose of vaccine…
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