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There certainly is a race. The slower we go the more spread. The more spread, the more variation. The more variation, the more likelihood of a vaccine-resistant
by binaryorganic 6y ago
There certainly is a race. The slower we go the more spread. The more spread, the more variation. The more variation, the more likelihood of a vaccine-resistant strain taking hold.
Even if it’s a long-term certainty, much better to be well-equipped to respond to it, which we simply are not at the moment.
- rcpt 6y agoMy point is that this virus spreads unbelievably fast and even with the most optimistic vaccine scenarios it has literally billions of hosts in the developing world to infect who have 0 zero chance of getting a shot anytime in the next few years. Of course the vaccines might be good enough to ward off infection from all future variants but that's just luck.