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Vaccines generally do not eliminate a pathogen and they are not expected to eliminate this Coronavirus. Smallpox is the only human disease to ever be successful

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  Relatively few vaccines exist, and even fewer old ones, but on the whole they have been quite effective. https://www.vaccines.gov/diseases https://www.vaccines.gov/diseases In total both Smallpox (human) and Rinderpest(cattle) have been eliminated in the wild. Seasonal flu is kind of an interesting case as each year is arguably a different disease with the old one having been eradicated. That’s hopefully a model which will work for covid-19. Polio is very close to being eliminated, with only 125 known cases in 2019, which was a spike. Rubella dropped from 670 thousand in 2000 to under 15 thousand in 2018. Ovine rinderpest elimination is considered a reasonable goal, but still 15+ years off.