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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by bxrxdx on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:56AM (#28314332)
That's not really how it works, First, vaccines prevent infection in the first place so the virus never has a chance to replicate and mutate, unlike antibiotics which are given after infection and there are a massive number of bacteria and only the most resistant survive. Second, there isn't anything about vaccine acquired immunity thats different from infection acquired immunity, so any evolutionary pressure would already be there.
Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas... by desine on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:04AM (#28314399)
> First, vaccines prevent infection in the first place so the virus never has a chance to replicate and mutate

Ideally, yes, but in practice people still tend to develop a viral load, their immune system kicks in faster, and the result is a very brief infection.

>Second, there isn't anything about vaccine acquired immunity thats different from infection acquired immunity

This is not true with the mRNA vaccines.