In Colorado people who have had one of the shots, are no longer asked to quarantine when exposed to someone who tests positive for COVID. This despite knowing that vaccinated people both catch and spread COVID just like the "unvaxed."
The implications on the numbers are going to run deeper than is immediately obvious. The first big number change this type of policy will cause, will be the number of cases in the "unvaccinated" will be exponentially higher than the vaccinated. All people who are quarantined are counted as presumed positive COVID cases until they test negative. They are also tabulated as such in county case counts. Therefore in any state not quarantining the "vaccinated" there will be exponentially higher numbers of COVID cases for the un-vaxed.
We are once again playing the game here, where 1 student tests positive, and 70 students get the Q. This is going to make youth cases of COVID look higher when represented as a percent of total cases. They can't get the shot, so they will have to quarantine, and be counted as cases until they test negative. This goes hand in hand with the big push to force the shot on kids.
It will also cause shut downs low vax areas, by forcing actual healthy people into quarantine. In the mean time there will be just as many or more sick people in high vax areas, but they will not be shut down, or effected as much because they aren't quarantining everyone.
The implications on the numbers are going to run deeper than is immediately obvious. The first big number change this type of policy will cause, will be the number of cases in the "unvaccinated" will be exponentially higher than the vaccinated. All people who are quarantined are counted as presumed positive COVID cases until they test negative. They are also tabulated as such in county case counts. Therefore in any state not quarantining the "vaccinated" there will be exponentially higher numbers of COVID cases for the un-vaxed.
We are once again playing the game here, where 1 student tests positive, and 70 students get the Q. This is going to make youth cases of COVID look higher when represented as a percent of total cases. They can't get the shot, so they will have to quarantine, and be counted as cases until they test negative. This goes hand in hand with the big push to force the shot on kids.
It will also cause shut downs low vax areas, by forcing actual healthy people into quarantine. In the mean time there will be just as many or more sick people in high vax areas, but they will not be shut down, or effected as much because they aren't quarantining everyone.