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If you’ve been vaccinated, could you still spread the virus? Here’s what an expert says

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Vaccines will very soon reduce the rate of severe disease and death worldwide. Image: REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

Deborah Fuller
Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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