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I wonder if there isn't a market for a COVID vaccine that the inevitable variants aren't resistant to. If you kept it to a small group of customers, it would m

I wonder if there isn't a market for a COVID vaccine that the inevitable variants aren't resistant to. If you kept it to a small group of customers, it would maintain it's value and be worth $$$$ to them potentially.

BrianOnHN 5y ago
That's certainly the future. Mass vaccination might have made it better for costs on tptb in the past. But, if that doesn't work because a sufficient amount of the population refuses to cooperate...
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GuB-42 5y ago
AFAIK, variants are not "resistant" to vaccines, they are just different, so a vaccine targeting the previous strand will be less effective because it doesn't match perfectly. There is no better vaccine than the one for the current dominant variants. You can't really target future mutations because you don't know what the future mutations will be. You can imagine restricting the best, most current vaccine to the rich to limit escape mutations but besides the obvious ethical concerns, the virus will mutate anyways. Better vaccinate everyone with the best, because the less people infected, the less chances you give the virus to mutate.
- gweinberg 5y ago
  Current vaccines aren't optimized for the currently dominant Covid strains, they're optimized for the Covid strains that were around a year and a half ago.
pfdietz 5y ago
The problem, IMO, with the current vaccination system is not that lots of people aren't getting their shots with the available vaccines (although that's sad); the problem is how many hoops have to be jumped through to get the vaccines on the market at all. The GOP could have legitimately criticized Big Government on this if they hadn't swallowed all the stupid. Freedom doesn't mean just the freedom to decline a vaccine; it means the freedom to act without the government's permission.

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I wonder if there isn't a market for a COVID vaccine that the inevitable variants aren't resistant to. If you kept it to a small group of customers, it would m

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BrianOnHN 5y ago
That's certainly the future. Mass vaccination might have made it better for costs on tptb in the past. But, if that doesn't work because a sufficient amount of the population refuses to cooperate...
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GuB-42 5y ago
AFAIK, variants are not "resistant" to vaccines, they are just different, so a vaccine targeting the previous strand will be less effective because it doesn't match perfectly. There is no better vaccine than the one for the current dominant variants. You can't really target future mutations because you don't know what the future mutations will be. You can imagine restricting the best, most current vaccine to the rich to limit escape mutations but besides the obvious ethical concerns, the virus will mutate anyways. Better vaccinate everyone with the best, because the less people infected, the less chances you give the virus to mutate.
- gweinberg 5y ago
  Current vaccines aren't optimized for the currently dominant Covid strains, they're optimized for the Covid strains that were around a year and a half ago.
pfdietz 5y ago
The problem, IMO, with the current vaccination system is not that lots of people aren't getting their shots with the available vaccines (although that's sad); the problem is how many hoops have to be jumped through to get the vaccines on the market at all. The GOP could have legitimately criticized Big Government on this if they hadn't swallowed all the stupid. Freedom doesn't mean just the freedom to decline a vaccine; it means the freedom to act without the government's permission.