NEJM: COVID booster significantly delays end of infection
By the way, you need to look at the graphics in the NEJM article to see the difference in duration of infectivity between the vaxxed, boosted and unvaxxed. The fact this is getting into the NEJM is astonishing. Is the system now going to try and normalize all the problems with the vaccine? Good luck with that.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356245
31% boosted people still contagious 10 days post-infection vs. 6% unvaccinated.
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
(NEJM)* has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated
(boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID
infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not
vaccinated at all.
The study did not deal with the severity of illness with or without a vaccine.
Researchers
swabbed infected people and cultured the swabs, repeating the process
for over two weeks until viral replication was not observed.
At
five days post-infection, less than 25 percent of unvaccinated people
were still contagious, whereas around 70 percent of boosted people were
still carrying viable virus particles. For those partially vaccinated,
around 50 percent were still contagious at this point.
Even more
strikingly, at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31
percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus. By
contrast, just six percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious
at day 10.
In
other words, people who have received a booster shot are five times
more likely still to be contagious at ten days post-infection than are
unvaccinated people.
The findings go a long way to explaining why
Paxlovid, Pfizer’s anti-viral medication, is often not effective for
people who have been vaccinated against COVID, with many experiencing a
recurrence of symptoms along with a positive COVID test after completing
the five-day regimen (as recently occurred with quadruple-vaccinated
Dr. Anthony Fauci). This phenomenon is known as COVID rebound.
Meanwhile,
Israeli Health Ministry data shows that in the older population (those
over the age of 60), having submitted to more COVID shots often
correlates to a greater likelihood of becoming infected with COVID.
The
blue line represents the unvaccinated; light-green is the
partially-vaccinated; dark-green is those who have received a booster
shot within the past six months.