Your own article explains why they say that now, and how it will change over time as we do more research.
Was vaccine efficacy only measured in symptomatic COVID-19?
The reported efficacy rates of 94 or 95 percent are for symptomatic disease only. Because the clinical trials for Pfizer and Moderna did not require regular testing for COVID-19, they were not a good indication of how well the vaccine protects against asymptomatic disease (which account for some 40 percent of cases).
A dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is prepared before it’s administered minutes later at the vaccine clinic at the Parnassus Heights campus. Photo by Susan Merrell
Limited data suggest the vaccines can prevent some asymptomatic infections. In the Moderna study, participants were tested just prior to receiving each dose. “There was a reduction in asymptomatic infection in the vaccine versus the placebo group, which gives us hope. Otherwise, researchers only found out that a participant got an infection if the person developed symptoms and then tested positive,” said Boslett. “We know the vaccine really reduces incidents of symptomatic disease, but we don’t know how it impacts the incidents of asymptomatic disease.”
Researchers should know the answer in a couple of months. “I think that logically speaking it should prevent or at least reduce asymptomatic disease,” said Boslett. “Most other vaccines do prevent both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriage and transmission, but until we prove it, we don’t want to assume anything.”
His weird claims don’t apply to just women, as is evident in the statement that “When men lose their testicles to disease or injury, they have difficulty reading a map, performing math problems and making decisions.”
I’m not telling anyone not to take it, especially the very old. I’m questioning. I took it. I’m saying I don’t buy all the hype about it or many things, because I have lived long enough to know the mainstream thought is many times proved wrong later, after it’s too late for many people.
No. It’s following the same path as other vaccines.
There is nothing unusual about this - it tickles our immune response to prepare our body to deal with a real infection. Just like all vaccines.
Because of the methodology used in testing these vaccines, they can not conclusively state what they level of immunity is. All they can say is what the level of protection against serious infection is.
You realize this is also true for other vaccines, don’t you?
In general, most vaccines do not completely prevent infection but do prevent the infection from spreading within the body and from causing disease.
I don’t discount his ideas about vitamins & zinc helping fight corona, the doctors in the area here say it does help. My doctor told me it was a good idea.
