# These Vaccines Don't Prevent Transmission of the Virus?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-vaccines-dont-prevent-transmission-of-the-virus/928074 "2020-12-15T04:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-vaccines-dont-prevent-transmission-of-the-virus/928074/2 "2020-12-15T04:18:10Z")

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Ongoing thread I said:

> [@Vaccine: you'll get COVID but no symptoms?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-youll-get-covid-but-no-symptoms/927962/2):
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> They don’t know yet. This guy is just saying they haven’t proved vaccinated people aren’t infectious.
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> Making you be asymptomatic or very mild symptoms is used as the mark of a successful vaccine because that’s a more readily thing to test. How infectious people are is something that akes more time and effort to figure. Generally though, a vaccine that helps well with symptoms is probably good for lowering infectiousness.

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