https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356245
Can anyone link to the NEJM article they are citing? Every study I’ve seen says the opposite.
Could be this
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092but the text there is significantly different from the earlier preprint and I don't know what the news writer was relying on.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.01.22271582v1.fullThe NEJM article says "Although vaccination has been shown to reduce the incidence of infection and the severity of disease,
we did not find large differences in the median duration of viral shedding among participants who were unvaccinated, those who were vaccinated but not boosted, and those who were vaccinated and boosted....Our results should be interpreted within the context of a small sample size,"
The supplementary material linked at the bottom gives these numbers:
sample sizes (unvax, vax, triple vax)
omicron infections 9,13,12
delta infections 7,24,1
So the news article "at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31 percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus" is referring to ...4 people? Perhaps the graph makes it look like triple vax took longer to stop viral shedding, but they're not saying it's statistically significant.
I'm not sure we can say anything conclusive about triple vax here, but I think their main point was that a significant number of people are still contagious at 5 days post-infection, so the advice should be to isolate for more than that.
See also
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9045443/"Vaccinees with mild or asymptomatic infection shed infectious virus 6–9 days after onset or diagnosis, even after symptom resolution."