This Is a Sign We Need to Re-Think This Whole Vaccine Effort

You can’t expect the entire world to get a new vaccine every three months because some new odd variant has appeared.

Gottlieb: Vaccines against specific COVID variants may not work with others | One America News Network (oann.com)

According to former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, variant-specific vaccines may not work against new variations of COVID. During an interview Sunday, he said there’s reason to believe developed vaccines won’t work well against the full component of different variants.

“While Omicron may become a threat in U.S., the absolute risk from it right now is very low,” Gottlieb noted. “Many people will still become infected by Delta and may find that delta natural immunity doesn’t protect well against Omicron.

“So, the question right now is whether or not this is re-infecting people who have Delta immunity and haven’t been vaccinated, or whether it’s going to also infect people who have who have been vaccinated,” Gottlieb stated. “There’s some reason to believe that vaccines could be more protective than just immunity acquired through natural infection from Delta. That’s going to be a critical question we need to figure out in the coming weeks because we have some important policy decisions that we need to make, depending on the answer.”

Yes, policy decisions like “maybe we abandon this whole plan”. That would be a good place to start.

Remember, no one has died from Omicron yet.