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> Why are vaccines necessary? Because we don't have a cure ? > A cure would be just fine; some drug that stopped covid immediately would be very nice. > For
by johnchristopher 5y ago
> Why are vaccines necessary?
Because we don't have a cure ?
> A cure would be just fine; some drug that stopped covid immediately would be very nice.
> For example most forms of malaria _had_ a cure with the discovery of quinine. Newer drugs have taken quinine's place. It's a race between the organism and man in any case, whether cure or vaccine.
So we don't need vaccines because cures - which we don't have so far - are better. Okay.
- giardini 5y agojohnchristopher says:>"So we don't need vaccines because cures - which we don't have so far - are better."< I didn't say that. What I'm saying is that we should research treatments (non-vaccine cures) as well as vaccines. After all, of our current medical solutions that do work for various ailments, what percentage are vaccines and what percentage are treatments found by experiment or accident (like quinine for malaria)?