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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So far, all of the vaccines work against the variants. Vaccines can be modified in about six weeks to take account of new strains where necessary. Like flu, there will be appropriately modified vaccines each year to be used as boosters. In fact, they may introduce joint flu/Covid vaccines.
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And you are accusing me of using selective arguments.  |
Modifying a vaccine in 6 weeks is not the same as manufacturing millions of doses and getting them into everyone’s arms. That takes months, as we’re now well aware. And on a global scale our vaccine rollout has been one of the quickest ones.
*If* the India variant is a vaccine escape mutant then we will be back to lockdowns in time. It would be inevitable. Thankfully at the moment the mounting data suggest that this is not a vaccine escape scenario, but rather the consequence of certain clusters of people not coming forward to get vaccinated when first asked.