Do you think there will ever be a vaccine that will stop the transmission of COVID?

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I was reading something depression about covid. I was someone who took COVID seriously during 2020 and 2021. Took the vaccines and then eased up and eased back to living.

Now I see there's a new COVID wave and it's not right. Flu season is over and it's not right how people are getting sick over and over and lasting for weeks at a time. There's just something not right.

A lot people's reactions are disgusting and negligence passing on their sicknessess.

As someone who eased up over the past 2 years approx I am getting nervous again. I can't afford to get sick again not only that, I likely won't be allowed appropriate time off from work if I was to get ill. I will be expected in work.

I am nervous. It's not right to be so sick all the time.

I was wondering if there will ever be a vaccine that will stop the transmission of the virus?

I think that is only way forward out from really going back to pre COVID living.

Don't know, but the whole crackpot strategy at the moment ignores long covid, increased risk of heart attacks, susceptibility to other illnesses, impacts on everything from teeth to joints to blood and perhaps the most bizarre one - fear of mentioning it!

No, I don’t think so. They’ve never managed to come up with a vaccine to prevent colds which are typically caused by other coronaviruses. The Covid vaccines were such a massive focus with so much money thrown at them because so many people were dying worldwide and economies were tanking due to restrictions and so on. Those things aren’t true any more, so money will not be thrown at it in the same way, it’s just not a priority.

And what do you think is a strategy that isn't 'crack pot' ?

I don't know op but I've had Covid 5 times all together and twice in the past 6 months. It knocks me out every time! I'm sick of being sick!

I'm desperate for a proper sterilising vaccine but unless world leaders change their attitude it's not going to happen. At the moment short term thinking is winning and most people are in denial. I have Long Covid and reinfection was a huge setback for me. My life is severely restricted now because of being unwell and because I avoid crowds and being inside public spaces.

In a word, no. It's a cold type virus and it's never been done before.

No!!

But like the flu, the vaccines will protect the vulnerable etc and without the vaccines more would be at risk!!

Vaccines don't stop transmission. They stop you becoming quite so unwell but you may still be a bit unwell

No it mutates too fast

Please see my previous post re vacine!!

My fear is the next time bomb, EG, bird flu!!

IMO, the world is being poisoned by our greed for cheaper food and more chemicals are going into the ground and feed to animals

We are becoming antibody resitant

Virises are evolving and getting used to our dtugs

IMO, its only matter of another hundred years or so where only the strongest will survive like a couple of hundred years ago

I've got covid just now and I am FUCKING dying. I've never had sinus pain like it. I'm taking strong painkillers and it's not even touching the sides of it

I'm worried about it too- I had really bad neurological stuff that convinced me I had MS or worse after my 2nd bout of it and it's taken 20 months to get back to reasonably ok again-

I don’t think so, no, not any time soon. Most of us are back to pre-covid living.

Ooh really - I've had all sorts of odd stuff going on over the past 1.5 years and I'm worried about MS too

@CandyLeBonBon my biggies were multiple times daily pins and needles in feet, internal tremor feelings in legs, buzzing in a finger randomly (like a battery switched on ) weird heady feeling - like you might feint , sore dry eyes, daily back of head headaches, arthritis feeling in neck -gradually with a lot of vitamins, water , gluten free diet more walking and time it's got a lot better- 20 months! Mine came on 4 days after 3rd vaccine and 2 weeks after 2nd bout of covid. Can't say if it was covid or the vaccine!

No, I highly doubt that’s realistic. These viruses adapt, coronaviruses, influenza.
Go back to the increased hygiene of 2020-1, I don’t mean masks but regular hand washing will make the world of difference. Don’t fret.

I was really ill with it and exhausted and achy for weeks. The last vaccine I had though, I had an allergic reaction to and was covered in hives with a swollen face (according to data 1/1000 got the swollen face).

There is so much around at the moment

And that's only the people who test

A mask in crowded indoor spaces will do much more good than hand washing with an airbourne virus.

Agree about the bird flu. Doesn’t feel like that’s being taken quite as seriously as it probably should be at the moment.

I've had COVID 6 times. So far the worst side effect is a constant running nose, which I'll take quite happily given what everyone else is dealing with.the joys of working in a primary school kitchen

Me too 😭

I’m the same, the sinus pain is awful as is the cough. I’ve been sleeping on and off most days for the last 7 days and I can’t keep anything down. I’ve had the anti virals which didn’t work and I’m wheezing. I’ve had it twice before but this is the worst. I had what they diagnosed as covid in April 2020 and was hospitalised for 3 weeks with it, it took 4 months for me to feel remotely normal again but this time is worse. I hope you start to feel better soon.

Edited to add they can stick their vaccines up their arse, every time I had a vaccine I was floored for weeks afterwards. I gave up after the 4th one.

I think they will manage to produce polyvalent vaccines that work for longer periods against more variants.

So you’d still need to be vaccinated regulalry but they would need to update the formula less often.

I remember reading a few years back that the timeline on those types of vaccine suggested they would be ready in 2026.

So I think there will be periods of relatively more safety compared to now and those periods will get longer and longer.

@Listress

Christ that sounds absolutely rotten. I hope you're feeling better soon.

I'm day 5 of the sinus pain and it's been a bit milder today but that's still worse than a normal dose of sinusitis. My cough cleared up after the first 3 days.

I've had it once before in 2021. Was no where near as wicked as this feels.

@HelloDaisy get well soon. ❤️