Great good news about Pfizer and Moderna – FHI warns of relief for the vaccinated – VG

For one thing, the vaccines protect you from becoming seriously ill. This is the requirement for them to be approved in the EU and Norway. It is something else if they protect you against infection – or if you can still get the virus and spread it further.

Therefore, the 270,000 fully vaccinated in Norway are still encouraged to follow the infection control councils. FHI and the Norwegian Directorate of Health have justified this on the grounds that it is unclear how much the vaccines actually protect against the spread of infection.

But now new answers are coming from one new American study. And FHI announces new advice to those vaccinated in Norway.

This shows the study

Since December, the American infection control agency CDC has followed 4,000 vaccinated people in the first line in the USA, including health workers.

– This is a solidly conducted study, says chief physician Preben Aavitsland in FHI to VG.

Vaccinated and unvaccinated have been followed up over time with weekly tests. Thus, one can show that the vaccinated were 90 percent protected against at all to Get infected. From the trials, we knew that the vaccinated were over 90 percent protected against get sick, he points out.

– This is very positive. Since the vaccinated are not infected to any great extent, they cannot infect others either. And thus, vaccination can help stop the epidemic for everyone, vaccinated and unvaccinated, says the FHI top.

Announces new advice “eventually”

Aavitsland says that the study shows that vaccination works exactly as they hoped.

– Can this have consequences for what advice is given to fully vaccinated people?

– We have been careful. We did not want to make the mistake of letting the vaccinated completely loose and risk that they could still be infected and could infect others, the superior in FHI answers.

– We now collect data from all such studies and examine them thoroughly, and then we will update our advice to vaccinated, says Aavitsland.

– Will this lead to relief for the vaccinated?

– Yes, this study, together with others, will lead to relief eventually, confirms the FHI superior.

– There is now more and more evidence that vaccination protects against infection, disease, hospitalization and death, says Aavitsland.

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