Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by bluGill on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:17PM
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If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked. However enough is at least 80% of the world population, and maybe as much as 95%. There wasn't enough supply in the world. If the 95% number is correct kids young enough still are not approved to reach that, mutations keep making the number higher, though we might need to get a new vaccine that covers new variants.
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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by ApolloFortyNine on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:51PM
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>If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked.
One of the theories on the origin of omicron seems to be that it evolved in animals for a while before jumping back to humans (the weirdness being that it's not evolved from Delta, and it has a number of mutations all at once). [1]
And even if it's not the origin of this variant, it could easily be the origin of a future variant (that's why they're considering it).
And it's quite unlikely we could vaccinate every animal on the planet, so this idea that if we had just gotten all our shots this variant would have never happened is pretty ridiculous.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-omicron-covid-varian...
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by bluGill on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:42PM
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If we had vaccinated soon/fast enough we could have prevented the to animal transmission in the first place
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by elihu on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:41PM
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I don't think that's a realistic expectation. If millions of people have a highly infectious disease, then it's very likely to spread to any wildlife (that aren't naturally immune) in the same general area as those infected humans. By the time the vaccines were available, Covid was basically everywhere.