Originally Posted by
Foxxster
I made a comment before about what would happen when the virus mutates to a variant that renders the current vaccines useless or close to it.
if anyone thinks this will all end in 6 or 9 months when a significant portion of the world population is vaccinated...well..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art....html#comments
Stop reading too much Daily Mail or you’ll fearmonger yourself into a frenzy.
COVID mutates slower than the flu.
COVID strains are more genetically similar than the various flu strains are.
Mutations don’t necessarily render current vaccines useless.
Getting immunised against basic SARS-COV-2 will provide a level of protection against all strains, some more so than others.
Vaccines can be targeted to new strains of the virus. Every year scientists use forecasted predictions to choose which 4 influenza strains should be included in that year’s flu shot.
When you get your yearly flu shot in autumn does it bother you that scientists are already trying to work and predict what strains should be in the vaccine for the following season? Because that’s essentially what the article you posted is talking about if you strip away the usual Daily Mail tabloid hyperbole.
Fact check: COVID-19 and influenza vaccines too different to be directly compared