Originally Posted by
compressor stall
The use of the word "huge" is probably just a hyperbole overcome by cognitive lassitude.
So, bullsh^t, in lay terms.
Originally Posted by
compressor stall
What the
not yet peer reviewed studies show are that in communities with very high cases of Delta, vaccinated people who have had breakthrough infections of Delta exhibit
similar viral loads to unvaccinated people.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....31.21261387v1
Did you look at the sample size that they were working with for that study? An initial cohort of 291 samples with a lot of exclusions along the way.
The small sample size aside, the fundamental problem with that study is that they are trying to use threshold cycle (Ct) values from PCR testing to determine viral load. You can't use Ct values to determine, or even infer, viral load. As the CDC stated clearly
here:
A Ct value does not indicate how much virus is present, but only whether or not viral genetic material was detected at a defined threshold.
Similarly, they are then trying to take the inferred viral load to further infer infectiousness. As the CDC states at the same reference as above:
RT-PCR tests are used to identify and diagnose an active infection but cannot be used to show how infectious someone is.
It will be interesting to see if that paper makes it way through the review process.