Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
This wasn't the point I was trying to make. The vaccine will not get rid of the virus 100% and possibly will not stop transmission. The virus is endemic across a high proportion of the world and will take many years for it to shift.
It’s not about stopping infections of the SARS-COV-2 virus. It’s about slowing the spread of the COVID-19 disease and subsequent pandemic from that disease the virus causes. Yes, they know that zero infections for life will be impossible to achieve. But they know that herd immunity will send the reproduction number below zero. It will cause the virus to die out. A vaccine will protect vulnerable populations. Will full eradication be possible? Maybe, but that will take decades.
The vaccine is to stop a pandemic, not a virus if that makes sense.
But it’s fine to call it “UK strain” or South African strain
Well let’s refer to it as the new B117 strain then, which is exactly what scientists have named it.