Why vaccines aren't the magic bullet

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rs-delve.github.io/reports/2020/10/01/covid19-vaccination-report.html#what-constitutes-an-effective-vaccine

This is a good read about the difficulties and potential pitfalls of developing a vaccination strategy.

If anyone thinks that we'll all be fine come Spring/Summer 2021 due to a vaccine, this flies in the face of what those in the field think. There are numerous potential pitfalls, issues with distribution, a likelihood of ineffectivness in the elderly that really need it and the possiblity of it over-triggering the immune system.

Vaccines are great things but aren't quick and easy to develop. There's a reason the quickest one to date took 4 years.

Yes but that quickest one to date didn't have the whole world throwing everything they have at it.

Also there are many trials for many vaccines currently going ahead (over 150 at the moment). They are based on different drugs, with different deliveries and some are especially being worked on to have good effect in the elderly and vulnerable.

How many other viruses have had so many treatments in development, that affected so many country's peoples and economies? In such devastating ways in living memory?

Any who's read any detail about vaccine development in the last few months has been aware of the logistics for some time.