[thaufeki]

>It depends entirely on an individual immune system detects and combats a particular infection.

Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean by contrast that vaccines are designed to induce a uniform response across immune systems?

EDIT: A reply (deleted before I could respond) mentioned that immune systems will combat the infection by some "pattern" of it's own design, but a vaccine will encourage the immune system to respond in a predetermined way, (increasing likelihood of uniformity, answering my question).

Is this accurate?

[andrewnicolalde]

> Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean by contrast that vaccines are designed to induce a uniform response across immune systems?

Also not an expert and curious, would that not be a (the?) design goal of any vaccine?

[dnautics]

there is no way for it to be perfectly uniform. Let's just say that the immune system employs several layers of RNG (random shuffling of DNA, and also it shoots mutations at certain segments of DNA) to evolve its responses.

A more uniform response than the pathogen itself? Yes. But I think the actual goal of modern vaccination is not a uniform response, but a directed response. Don't waste your time looking at these parts of the virus, spend it on this (important) part.