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The vaccine initially 90%+ protection was so good we were all going to be "free", amazing...

• _Microft 5y ago
  The vaccines as they are would have been perfectly fine if the wild type of SARS-Cov2 were everything we had to deal with. At least you seem to be referring to that because of the level of efficacy you mention. Unfortunately the pesky Delta variant appeared and threw a spanner in our works. Now there is the Omicron variant which seems to be even more infectious. As much as I understand that people would prefer if the world were simple and solutions obvious but it just not is this way. It's messy and things change and that means that yesteryear's statements just might no longer be true. We need to deal with that and please do not make things more complicated than they are anyways already.
  • moreoutput 5y ago
    "It's messy and things change and that means that yesteryear's statements just might no longer be true. " Trust the experts, but dont hold them to anything that would be wrong!
  • sigmaprimus 5y ago
    plus if there was actually something bad in the first two doses, how else are they going to undo the damage without a third shot? After all yesteryear's treatment might no longer be a treatment at all and we might need to deal with that as things turn out to be more complicated than "Two weeks to flatten the curve".
• pacerwpg 5y ago
  It initially was 90%+ protection.
• rsynnott 5y ago
  Versus the variants available at the time, yes. Unfortunately, the people running the studies couldn't get the budget for a time machine to see what would be happening in late 2021. Note that the possibility of future variants was certainly raised at the time; it was never any secret that this was an evolving situation.