COVID-19

Does the Pfizer Vaccine Stop Transmission?



Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram discusses how and when the transmission prevention capability of vaccines were tested during the COVID-19 pandemic. See all Dr. Seheult’s videos at: https://www.medcram.com
(This video was recorded on October 16, 2022)

Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

LINKS / REFERENCES:

Effect of Covid-19 Vaccination on Transmission of Alpha and Delta Variants (NEJM) | https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597#article_references

Effect of Vaccination on Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in England (NEJM) | https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2107717

Impact of BNT162b2 Vaccination and Isolation on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Israeli Households: An Observational Study (American Journal of Epidemiology) | https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/191/7/1224/6541606?

Vaccination with BNT162b2 reduces transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to household contacts in Israel (Science) | https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abl4292

The indirect effect of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination on healthcare workers’ unvaccinated household members (Nature) | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28825-4

Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us (BMJ) | https://t.co/NInSYrkjj1

Pfizer exec laughs when asked whether they knew their product stopped transmission prior to release (Real Rukshan) | https://youtu.be/2YagXbprzFE

FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine (FDA) | https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-takes-key-action-fight-against-covid-19-issuing-emergency-use-authorization-first-covid-19

Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2022 (AHA) | https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases (Our World in Data) | https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases

“I am frightened by what is coming”: Texas hospitals could soon be overwhelmed by COVID-19 caseload, officials say (Texas Tribune) | https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/10/texas-hospitals-crisis-covid/

Health Care Crisis Protocol for the State of Nebraska (DHHS) | https://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/NE-Crisis-Protocol.pdf

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