| > If a vaccine doesn't prevent infection... well I'll give you that it's still a vaccine. The failure of the covid vaccine to prevent infection You mentioned the flu and common cold, given that the results of vaccines for both such illnesses are pretty poor, I think it's kinda strange to complain about COVID vaccines preventing illness but not infection. We managed to get results in 18 months on COVID that we couldn't get in 100 years of battling flu and the common cold. Something is better than nothing. If we shoot our shot (pun intended) too early so that if we develop a COVID vaccine that also prevents infection (not to mention an universal vaccine preventing infection for flu and classic Coronaviruses) people won't take it...well it only means that you are up against illogic behavior , and when that is the case nothing will help you. If you did everything perfect in the realm of vaccines that illogic behavior from the population would show up elsewhere such as drinking and driving, poor political choices, unnecessary violence etc. At the end of the day we live in a society and illogic behavior is also a big epidemic. Having developed a vaccine that costs less than 5$ and prevents serious illness in just 18 months is a huge victory. You are suggesting we should have not taken this huge W and keep grinding in the hope of getting an even bigger W and I have to disagree with that. |