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madville

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7. Being vaccinated may not matter so much about with this one

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Fri Nov 26, 2021, 09:52 AM

Nov 2021

As far as transmission goes. The two people in Hong Kong that got infected with this strain both had the Pfizer vaccine and extremely high viral loads. Way too early to tell though, probably be a few weeks before there is decent data about current vaccine effectiveness.

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