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"this":https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/viruses-variation-and-vaccines/ seems to be a pretty good article on the subject, I think. Most vaccines (HPV, Hepatitis, Polio, Smallpox) last around 10 years or so before the immune system starts to forget. The viruses evolve, but we've already eradicated them so thoroughly that their population is too small for many mutations to happen. Influenza or HIV, in comparison, are infecting a ton of people giving plenty of chances for a mutation to occur that resists a vaccine. The article also says [bq]Focusing on a single protein contributed to the record-breaking pace of COVID-19 vaccine development. But it also produced narrowly focused vaccines that could falter in the face of viral variation.[/bq]so it'd take them a longer time to figure out how to get the immune system to respond to multiple proteins instead of just one, and that's why the Covid19 vaccines suck.
I think we need to have a society that can minimize transmission of the virus, and get everybody to vaccinate at once. With the viral population decimated, it would evolve more slowly, and we'd minimize transmission slowing it down even further. So we'd have more time to develop a more effectiveovaccine.
"this":https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/viruses-variation-and-vaccines/ seems to be a pretty good article on the subject, I think. Most vaccines (HPV, Hepatitis, Polio, Smallpox) last around 10 years or so before the immune system starts to forget. The viruses evolve, but we've already eradicated them so thoroughly that their population is too small for many mutations to happen. Influenza or HIV, in comparison, are infecting a ton of people giving plenty of chances for a mutation to occur that resists a vaccine. The article also says [bq]Focusing on a single protein contributed to the record-breaking pace of COVID-19 vaccine development. But it also produced narrowly focused vaccines that could falter in the face of viral variation.[/bq]so it'd take them a longer time to figure out how to get the immune system to respond to multiple proteins instead of just one, and that's why the Covid19 vaccines suck.
I think we need to have a society that can minimize transmission of the virus, and get everybody to vaccinate at once. With the viral population decimated, it would evolve more slowly, and we'd minimize transmission slowing it down even further. So we'd have more time to develop a more effective