"should people bother with a vax if there's a highly effective cure?" Yes. COVID danger is it's virality, not it's lethality. 100% vaccinated population even

"should people bother with a vax if there's a highly effective cure?" Yes. COVID danger is it's virality, not it's lethality. 100% vaccinated population even at only 85% effectiveness means R0 is well below 1 and COVID cannot spread. 100% of COVID patients treated at 85% effectiveness of antiviral therapy means probably well over 1/2 the population still gets COVID, that's devastating. If this were about a non-communicable disease, then probably the vaccine would be a slightly better idea, but due to virality there's no doubt vaxxes are better. The best is to have both. Finally, the vaxx is $20, antiviral is $700, which is material. That said, if the 'cure' were 100% perfect, no side effects, cost $1 and could be given at any time after infection and prevents any further adverse effects, then we could probably just settle on that if we had to. I don't suspect we're going to hear a lot about this in the press, because the 'narrative' still needs to be 'get vaccinated'. What will happen is the CFR will come down to to this and other measures behind the scenes so to speak. Unless this thing comes down to $50 and is something any doctor can prescribe willy-nilly easy-peasy in which case I think there would be a big media campaign to 'inform us'.