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SamBam on Nov 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effecti...

> Does it prevent spreading (read: keep wearing masks after vaccination) or does it "only" prevent symptoms?

I don't believe there is any vaccine in the world that would act like this, since that's not how the immune system works.

mansr on Nov 16, 2020 [–]

Early polio vaccines did.

SamBam on Nov 16, 2020 | [–]

Source? I skimmed through "History of polio vaccination" [1] and didn't see anything about that.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782271/

mansr on Nov 16, 2020 | | [–]

I happened to read it here recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/02/how-goo... No, that's not a scholarly article.

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