DownUnderwater Dan
Contributor
Quote them on it, but until there are multiple vaccines and longer term efficacy studies, they are only committing to reality. You cannot eliminate a mutating virus, but if the S-Spike vaccine works like the inventors suggest it should, the mutations are irrelevant because the virus cannot latch. Its new technology, they just don't have the long-term knowledge to be definitive and what they say gets held against them forever.
If the RNA vaccine is the go, there will likely be an annual shot to pick up the mutations. Just like the flu shot, the virus has not gone away, we live with it, its a really significant killer, but the shots are available. It'd be interesting to see where the current reproduction rates are, but seasonal influenza is R2 and SARS-COV-2 was R4, so an annual one-shot combined vaccine for $20 would accept the virus is here to stay but completely mitigate its effects so that the new normal for life includes random, last-minute travel. You might need your immunisation book with your passport, but if you've every returned from South America you have that anyway.
We must live with COVID-19, says Air New Zealand CEO
I read this article last night, Air New Zealand CEO ran Walmart for 9 years before. He raises some interesting points, being that a vaccine may only be 50% effective, and that in some countries like the USA only 50% of people might be willing to get it
IMO if people get tested to see if they already have a pre-existing T-cell immunity response to Covid-19, that will go a longer way into measuring immunity projections in conjunction with best estimates of how many people will actually choose to get a covid-19 vaccine