Yes I agree with you. I wish I could find a study that clearly shows that unvaccinated people are more likely to transmit the disease than vaccinated people.
There are studies, but the ones I have found compare only people are infected. And when you have COVID you're contagious, vaccinated or not. This is then used as a basis for claiming: "See vaccinated are just as, or even more, contagious as unvaccinated!". That's what I'm trying to disprove.
If your likelihood to get infected is lower then you are less likely to retransmit but it is even more nuanced as this because viral load dynamics are a little different for vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
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Yes I agree with you. I wish I could find a study that clearly shows that unvaccinated people are more likely to transmit the disease than vaccinated people.
There are studies, but the ones I have found compare only people are infected. And when you have COVID you're contagious, vaccinated or not. This is then used as a basis for claiming: "See vaccinated are just as, or even more, contagious as unvaccinated!". That's what I'm trying to disprove.
Example of what I have found: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
If your likelihood to get infected is lower then you are less likely to retransmit but it is even more nuanced as this because viral load dynamics are a little different for vaccinated and non-vaccinated.