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Don't forget that no vaccine is 100% effective. There have been breakthrough cases requiring hospitalization and even some deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines

• colechristensen 5y ago
  But this is also true of any communicable disease. Rare serious complications taken with anything and not just to “sick” people. We don’t go back to normal when the earth is a sterile disease free environment, we go back when the outsized risk of this particular disease reduces to the noise floor of everything else.
  • Animats 5y ago
    With these new delivery technologies and 95% effective vaccines, we can go for total elimination. "When you get to hell, tell smallpox we said hello" - XKCD