# 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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**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-vaccines-dont-prevent-transmission-of-the-virus/928074/3 "2020-12-15T04:24:22Z")

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> [@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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> Generally though, a vaccine that helps well with symptoms is probably good for lowering infectiousness.

I agree. People with no symptoms are probably shedding the less virus that someone who is coughing a lot. The thrust of my post was more that I wonder how many people realize these vaccines weren’t even designed to deal with transmission of the virus.

Are most people like me in that they figured that’s what viral vaccines generally do? Prevent the spread of viral pathogens?

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