Posted on 03/29/2021 6:49:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Survey of experts in relevant fields concludes that new variants could arise in countries with low vaccine coverage
The planet could have a year or less before first-generation Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective and modified formulations are needed, according to a survey of epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease specialists.
Scientists have long stressed that a global vaccination effort is needed to satisfactorily neutralise the threat of Covid-19. This is due to the threat of variations of the virus – some more transmissible, deadly and less susceptible to vaccines – that are emerging and percolating.
The grim forecast of a year or less comes from two-thirds of respondents, according to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of organisations including Amnesty International, Oxfam, and UNAIDS, who carried out the survey of 77 scientists from 28 countries. Nearly one-third of the respondents indicated that the time-frame was likely nine months or less.
Persistent low vaccine coverage in many countries would make it more likely for vaccine-resistant mutations to appear, said 88% of the respondents, who work across illustrious institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Yale, Imperial College, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh.
“New mutations arise every day. Sometimes they find a niche that makes them more fit than their predecessors. These lucky variants could transmit more efficiently and potentially evade immune responses to previous strains,” said Gregg Gonsalves, associate professor of epidemiology at Yale University, in a statement.
“Unless we vaccinate the world, we leave the playing field open to more and more mutations, which could churn out variants that could evade our current vaccines and require booster shots to deal with them.”
The current crop of vaccines that have received emergency authorisations in different parts of the world is a mix of old and fresh technologies.
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Of cour$e there i$.
And it will never end. People have now sold their soul to the vaccine passport. Those who don’t conform will be locked out. Maybe even worse than that. Implementing The “Mark” is going to be a simple triviality from here on out.
Yeah....no....
I think we need to be annually vaccinated against new variants of scientists, myself. A 5.56 bore needle should do the trick.
Keep those face-masks and vaccines coming.
The proletariat will obey, or else.
Maybe... maybe not. Time will tell.
But, if needed, they’ll be ready. I know Moderna is already well along developing and testing new ones. And, should further tweaking be needed, Moderna has proved they can, on a dime, design and produce new mRNAs needed to create new/revised antigens.
Equine shee-yit.
Of course.
What else would anyone expect.
Completely expected. Must keep the fear at a fever pitch until all Liberty is destroyed.
Got another election to steal, I mean win.
Dirty vaxxer.
Fixed it.
How did they prove that?
The beatings will continue and your attitudes improve.
They don’t want people to marry or reproduce.
One has to ask...where does this end?
An annual shot to prevent a now deadly disease, which heretofore was not deadly to 99.3% of the human population?
For me, I’ll focus on controlling my exposure to all disease and keeping my immune system healthy. At least for now.
I may get the J&J traditional vaccine, but I’m in no hurry.
In a year it’ll be a different disease with a different vaccine. And I’m not keen to be on the endless vaccine train.
And they are also talking about new “deadly” influenza strains from China and Russia...
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