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No vaccine has ever had an efficacy dropoff as steep and rapid as the current crop of Covid vaccines.
by jaywalk 5y ago
No vaccine has ever had an efficacy dropoff as steep and rapid as the current crop of Covid vaccines.
- stefan_ 5y ago"The current crop of Covid vaccines" all of which are engineered based on the original variant. Ignorance like this has contributed to the virus mutating, and obviously the newer variants have increased fitness against whatever immune response the original one provokes - otherwise it wouldn't exist.
- djrogers 5y agoIf you look at the history of vaccinations against other diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, smallpox, etc. you won't see untying like what we're seeing now - those were all able to be largely or completely eradicated. What we appear to have with COVID-19 is akin to influenza - endemic, will never be eradicated, and thus it will mutate regularly and require new vaccines/boosters. Given that, people understandably want to treat it like the flu and get back to normal life. > Ignorance like this has contributed to the virus mutating Ignorance contributes nothing to the virus - it doesn't care if you have knowledge or not. This virus was going to mutate faster than we could produce vaccine no matter what we did.
- Ichthypresbyter 5y agoNo vaccine has ever had its efficacy measured in terms of infection detectable by PCR test.