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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by amluto on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:11PM (#28044323)
Measles, polio, and smallpox beg to differ. The varicella vaccine is fairly new, but I haven’t heard of a vaccine-resistant strain evolving. Pertussis seems to be an odd duck, and its vaccine is not as effective as people would like.

History is mixed here, but most of the mandatory vaccines seem to be extremely effective and to work well for at least decades.

Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by manwe150 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:07AM (#28045615)
Those also have low breakthrough rates (assisted by high vaccination percentages), giving it relatively no opportunity to evolve. They also had millennia to reach (and then work to maintain) peak fitness, while COVID is still encountering beneficial mutations somewhat frequently.
Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by D_Alex on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:56AM (#28046094)
Presumably also the human species had time to co-evolve some resistance to these illnesses. I shudder to think at the cost... hundreds of millions of lives for smallpox alone...