Bonus points for Marty Makary (a surgeon with no particular experience in infectious disease) being the spokesperson for this. I wonder if he’s the only licensed doctor they could find in the government willing to advocate for this policy?

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    11 days ago

    Getting the COVID vaccine does make your chances of contracting it much lower, but not zero by any means. If you’ve been vaccinated and you still get it, the severity and length is lower. My father-in-law caught it a while back, was vaccinated, had to be hospitalized. If he hadn’t been vaccinated, he may well have died.

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      10 days ago

      Agreed. That’s why it’s best practice to vaccinate the people caring for people like your FIL and my husband, so we have less chance of infecting them. (Either we don’t catch it at all, or don’t cough as much, over fewer days, and have a lower viral load to spread per cough.)