If you are vaccinated and catch covid, you do not clear the virus as quickly as the unvaccinated do

In a new study by the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers focused on the time it takes to eliminate the natural covid infection virus from persons vaccinated versus persons not vaccinated for covid.  Here is the journal article. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092

What were the findings?

Approximately 31% of the participants who were vaccinated/boosted were still showing PCR viral loads consistent with ability to shed/spread the virus at day 10, whereas 6% of unvaccinated individuals were still showing viral loads consistent with ability to spread the virus at day 10.

“In other words: out of 100 boosted persons who catch Covid, 31 will be still carrying LIVE VIRUS on Day 10. Out of 100 unvaccinated persons, only 6 would test positive on Day 10 — over five TIMES fewer people.

As a word of warning, the study involved a relatively small amount of people, so statistical significance is probably not quite what we’d like it to be — but it shows what we saw all along in other news. This study needs to be replicated on a larger scale for validity and determine if the same results are replicated in future studies.

It also means that boosted people, who might feel better in a few days, would be contagious for a few MORE days after recovery, thus potentially becoming silent spreaders of Covid. So much for “stopping the spread”!

GRTWT.