Seychelles - most vaccinated coutry - highest rate of C-19 positives
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Seychelles is the world's most vaccinated country, with over 60% being fully vaccinated.
37% of those that have been fully vaccinated have since tested positive for C-19.
57% of those that have been vaccinated have received their shots from China's state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm, with the remaining 43% getting their shots from AstraZeneca.
The WHO is investigating.
At this point, the WHO isn't saying much. This shouldn't be surprising since they sided with China throughout the C-19 pandemic.
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@raphjd Isn't a vaccine a small dose of the virus so your immune system can defeat it easily? I'm not a doctor or anything but I'm wondering if the test uses the same technology that vaccines use (detection is part of vaccine right?) and it makes no sense to freak out about it.
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If that were the case, then 37% of those fully vaccinated testing positive is quite a low number. It would mean that the vaccines are almost ineffective and a waste of Trillions of $$$$ globally.
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@vmalar said in Seychelles - most vaccinated coutry - highest rate of C-19 positives:
@raphjd Isn't a vaccine a small dose of the virus so your immune system can defeat it easily? I'm not a doctor or anything but I'm wondering if the test uses the same technology that vaccines use (detection is part of vaccine right?) and it makes no sense to freak out about it.
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NONE of the Covid vaccines used around the world today use actual (usually termed "dead") virus...
- The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use a NEW technology using Modified RNA to "spur" the immune system to build an antibody response to a protein specific to COVID-19. The technology is the result of YEARS of study by Moderna - for whom, this is actually the first commercial vaccine they have ever made!
- The J&J and AZ vaccines are created by inserting DNA from the COVID-19 virus into "dead" cold virus cells (the common cold is ALSO a coronavirus!)
Protection rates of the "traditional" vaccines vary, but none come even close to the 95%+ protection rates of the Pfizer and Moderna treatments. Some (e.g. the Russian Sputnik) have protection rates at or below 50%.
The issue for many (esp. the J&J being used in the US) is that, while they don't have such a great record for preventing infection at all - they have a great record for preventing hospitalizations. (In more direct terms, you may catch COVID-19 after being vaccinated with some of these inoculations, but you won't be hospitalized (or die) from it!
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It matters (very much) which vaccine you get as to how much protection you get. The statistic that matters in Seychelles isn't positive results, it's hospitalizations and deaths.
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Depends on the test. There's more than one testing protocol, and they detect different things at different sensitivities.
A viral test will not show a false positive from vaccination.
An antibody test may show a false positive from vaccination.
See: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html
