Do the Covid-19 Vaccines Prevent Transmission of the Coronavirus?

Dana G Smith
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Another day, another lesson in our really, really complicated immune system. We know now that vaccines are super-effective against Covid-19, which is phenomenal news, but scientists still aren’t sure how well they fare against the coronavirus itself. How is that possible, you say? In a new article for Elemental, I asked six scientists and physicians how the vaccines could protect against disease but not necessarily prevent infection or transmission of the virus.

Experts say that the virus could still enter cells in a…

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Dana G Smith
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science writer • PhD in 🧠 • Words in Scientific American, STAT, The Atlantic, The Guardian • Award-winning Covid-19 coverage for Elemental