Experts: Therefore, vaccinated people are less contagious than unvaccinated people
Many have wondered how it is possible that even fully vaccinated people can become infected.
Is it because the vaccines are not as effective and provide as good protection as it is claimed. Or are the new mutations so clever that they manage to penetrate the immune system even in fully vaccinated.
And does that mean, for example, that corona passes only provide a false sense of security.
In Denmark, vaccinated Danes now get the green light in the corona passport, knowing that it is a fact that these also risk becoming infected and infecting others.
However, researchers point to several important factors that suggest that there are obvious benefits to being vaccinated, also in relation to being contagious.
– Even if you get infected, you get less virus
– Even if you get infected, you get less virus. Even when the researcher has examined the virus from a vaccinated person, it turns out to be attenuated to such an extent that it is difficult to grow in the laboratories. It can also be seen in some studies that the amount of virus decreases faster and that the virus that the vaccinated person has is weaker, explains department head Palle Valentiner-Branth from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), to EkstraBladet.
The Danish researcher and current director general of the Danish health authority, rejects that giving vaccinated Danish green corona pass, provides a false security. The same goes for the director of SSI, Henrik Ullum.
During a press conference, he referred to completely new data from England which shows that vaccinated people spread less infection. This studied from The New England Journal of Medicine was published on October 28, and followed 144,525 health workers and 194,362 of their closest contacts where they live.
– The amount of virus is lower in vaccinated people
The Statens Serum Institut believes that several studies show that vaccinated people run a much lower risk than unvaccinated people, both when it comes to becoming infected themselves and passing on the infection to others.
– There have been some studies in Israel that suggest that if you become infected even if you have been vaccinated, for example months before, the amount of virus in those infected is lower if you compare with someone who has not been vaccinated. It was also found that there is a greater risk of infecting a family member if you are unvaccinated compared to if you have been vaccinated, explains Palle Valentiner-Branth.
He believes this substantiates that the risk of vaccinated infecting others is small, but that the risk is increasing the longer it has been since you received the last vaccine. In addition, it may also matter which variant of the coronavirus you are infected with.