Can you spread COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine?

Posted on March 8, 2021
Dr. John Weiland spoke with WJBC’s Scott Miller. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

By Blake Haas

BLOOMINGTON – According to a Bloomington Doctor, health experts are waiting for more answers on if an individual can spread COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine.

Dr. John Weiland, Medical Director of Acute Care Services at Carle BroMenn Medical Center, told WJBC’s Scott Miller researchers are still trying to determine what experts call “asymptomatic transmission.”

“If we had the luxury of time and we could study this virus over a decade, we would have answers to these questions as the vaccine rolls out. And perhaps that would be, we would have time to tweak a vaccine to sort of cover for those contingencies, but in this case, because the vaccine was needed to be rolled-out so quickly, we don’t really know for sure answers to those questions.”

“The presumption is on a very small scale probably there can be some asymptomatic transmission, but the immune technology is such that the likely hood of that happening in large numbers; so causing a super spreader type of event is very, very, small to the point where most immunologist would say ‘no, that’s not going to happen.'”

LISTEN: Dr. John Wieland spoke with WJBC’s Scott Miller: 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated people could gather without wearing a mask on Monday.

Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].

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