I'm right and you are wrong Geo
[QUOTE=GeoFisher;582736]YOU are incorrect..............PERIOD with regards to testing..........
With regards to Covid, you are right, it will be with us forever, and we will need to have "something" that is better. BUT we may never get that, and we might have to just build REAL immunities versus a "vaccine".
Your thoughts about the flu vaccine are pretty much spot on. We try to guess what flu will be "big" and target the top 20 or 30 variants in the vaccine. 90% of the time we get that evaluation right. When we don't get it right, we see significant rises in flu. You can see that in CDC data, and you can also see what variants were bad.
We shall see.......
Later,
Geo[/QUOTE]
Sorry you are wrong about the stats
And that REAL immunity you talk about will get millions more Americans killed by Covid. And that is INSANE!
As for Covid Vaccines we need to keep giving them to prevent deaths and decease hospital admissions and usage.
Right now both Pfizer and Moderna are testing a new vaccine that is specific for Covid19 Omicron variant of SARS CoV-2. They could have this ready for production right now if the Government didn't get in the way. But the FDA has to review data before they can approve the vaccine. That is what takes so long. Testing thousands of people to make sure it's safe and effective. Testing is going on right now. I'm not sure if that is phase 1 testing or phase 2 or phase 3. But it's an mRNA vaccine so they can change it easily and make it work against any variant that they have the DNA code for.