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The real question is about future strains. COVID was pretty much completely stable for over a year (minor variants without anything super significant changing).
by hajile 5y ago
The real question is about future strains. COVID was pretty much completely stable for over a year (minor variants without anything super significant changing). Once the vaccine was introduced, a bunch of variants started popping up.
It makes perfect evolutionary sense. Loads of variations appear in every infected individual. The most effective version takes over and is most likely to be passed on to others.
Most vaccines are so effective that the virus never gains a foothold. With the mRNA vaccines, people still get sick. You get tons of mutations and the original strain is no longer the most efficient because of the vaccine. so now there's tons of room for variants to form which work around the vaccine. Once an effective bypass happens, it takes off and you instantly get a new strain, but more resistant.
At the current rate, we're only a few short jumps away from a completely ineffective vaccine.
- lots2learn 5y agoThere were already 7 known variations when the vaccines were introduced. Furthermore, none of the vaccines currently approved for use (at least in the US) have the live virus. So vaccines are not "causing mutations". Mutations happen during replication within infected cells. The vaccines will greatly reduce the number of cells that will get infected. So vaccines reduce mutations and chances of strains to take hold. Unvaccinated people who become infected are what will fuel strains.