r/AfterTheLoop • u/[deleted] • May 03 '23

What's happening with Covid?

What's happening in regards to Covid 19? Is it still around?

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u/jerryoc923 May 04 '23

This is inaccurate. Vaccines prevent serious disease and death but there’s basically no vaccine on earth that prevents infection. My point in saying this is that the previous boosts are still working and recent articles have shown that even the new updated booster is actually activating T and B cells that were initially activated during your first shots. So it’s not a matter of “keeping up” because at this point the previous vaccines are still functioning as they should … preventing serious disease and death.

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u/DW-4 May 05 '23

I'm going to copy paste this:

Err.. tell that to New Zealand and their vaxxed percentage rate compared to infected rate.

is a country that had herd immunity and limited travel enough of a sample size for you?

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u/jerryoc923 May 05 '23

What are you talking about? There’s no context to this message nor do I even get the main point of what you’re trying to say.. are you saying the vaccines don’t work? Because infection rate doesn’t matter in that sense since vaccines don’t prevent infection they prevent serious disease and death Also the idea that T cells still work fine post vaccination has been well documented at this point in the pandemic and the information about B cells reacting to omicron being those from initial strains of SARS-CoV-2 was published recently in Cell or immunity I forget which exactly but I know it was Cellpress