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by fabian2k 1355 days ago
The vaccines are very effective in preventing severe illness and death. That's an enormous success, especially if you consider the speed of development.

The difficulty of developing vaccines varies a lot depending on the characteristics of the virus. For some we still can't manage to do this, others we have fully or mostly eradicated by vaccines already. There are ideas for vaccines that might help to also prevent infection with the newer COVID variants, e.g. the nose spray vaccines. But those have to be funded and developed, and that seems rather slow right now.