Been seeing a lot of miscommunication and misinformation on the conflation between virus infection and disease state.

SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. You can't have COVID-19 without becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2. (1/4)
The vaccine against COVID-19 is meant to prime the immune system to rapidly fight off SARS-CoV-2 if an individual contracts it. The vaccine allows the immune system to produce antibodies against the virus WITHOUT becoming infected. (2/4)
So is it possible to contract SARS-CoV-2 and have quantifiable virus RNA even if you've been vaccinated. Yes!

But the COVID-19 disease state is greatly limited because the immune system is already primed to fight off the infection. (3/4)
Can a vaccinated patient still transmit SARS-CoV-2? I think the best answer is we don't know. It stands to reason that a vaccinated patient will have much less SARS-CoV-2 virus post-exposure. How much that limited virus replication impacts transmission is unclear (4/4)
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