RE:RE:More promotion about DMSorry I totally disgree with you, I'm not convinced you have looked at any of the case studies/ info. Yes the vaccines are good (you might even say great), are they the pancea (end all) to stopping the spread of covid? I think a large part yes, but not all.
Against the original covid the vaccines efficacy is incredible. Moderna and Pfizer in the 94-95% range. It doesn't mean you won't get covid. It means your body will have the antibodies to fight and protect you against death and or hospitalization. You might still get it, but have no symptoms (which you would have shown if you had it). Its confusing as some people who get covid are asymptomatic. That's why those people who have vaccine may spread it.
The vaccines still offer protection against the variants (even Indian).
The most recent study is pfizer is about 33% after 1st dose vs Indian varaint and 75% after 2nd. Canada is of course mostly using Pfizer, and UK using mostly AZ.
Astrazenca is lower.
Don't forget Moderna has created their 2nd dose tailored to have better efficacy to the variants. They have stated its possible to adjust as new variants arise. How practical it is to keep getting shots against new variants, can't say. I would suspect many populations might be quite hesistant to go monthly for a new shot vs a new variant. With so much of the world not even getting one shot, its not realisitic for the rich countries to keep getting a new tailored variant shot while the poorer countries don't receive a single shot.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7882376/biontech-covid-19-vaccine-india-variant/ Just my opinion but I think the saying that each country isn't protected till we all are (globally) is quite true. Virus/ bacteria are going to keep changing, so if we cannot stamp out there is always a chance to evolve or mutant into something worse.
I would suspect an ongoing issue of basically hotspots in various places and having to isolate those spots.
As my friend who is a pharmasict says its a race agains the variant for our 2nd doses in Canada, its inevitable & its coming (like Thanos one might say). The question is do we have enough people vaccinated that it won't breakthrough?
I suspect its still adding to the testing numbers to DM, testing won't be ending as fast as people expected.
PS I'm not a Doctor so don't hang me for my medical opinions.