If we focus on getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and continue basic precautions till each country reaches herd immunity, COVID will be history, mutants and all.
COVID minus its ability to make people severely ill or cause deaths is nothing. Vaccines work. And that’s what they will reduce COVID to.
Every month will bring news of a new variant or mutant. But for vaccinated people the chances of getting seriously ill will be very low. Not zero. But very low. In the range of what annual influenza outbreaks are. Time will tell. But I’m optimistic.
The key is to reduce misinformation about vaccines, and stop worrying about lab studies that vaccines may not work against mutant strains etc which are of academic interest but don’t change strategy: Vaccinate as many people as possible, globally, with approved vaccines, fast.
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