Paul O Mahoney
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It should be said that all the questions we have regarding the vaccines are in general unanswerable to a level that would remove people's doubts.
These are vaccines that were/are being developed in record time and the data is essentially being generated in the real world and obviously collating all this takes time and understanding.
Overall I personally think it will work out but not in any time frame the scientific/political groups have set out as there are too many unknowns, add in the logistical challenges progress will not be what people feel it should be. (Thats not taking away from the UK and Israel in their rollouts)
Then there are the mutations(known)that apparently are causing some headaches to the producers in trying to work out if existing vaccines remain effective or will new vaccines have be made or will 2 jabs be enough?
I can't see us back to anything approaching normal this year, unless something radically changes for example the vaccines are proven to prevent transmission and they are robust enough to provide protection for variants and mutations.
These are vaccines that were/are being developed in record time and the data is essentially being generated in the real world and obviously collating all this takes time and understanding.
Overall I personally think it will work out but not in any time frame the scientific/political groups have set out as there are too many unknowns, add in the logistical challenges progress will not be what people feel it should be. (Thats not taking away from the UK and Israel in their rollouts)
Then there are the mutations(known)that apparently are causing some headaches to the producers in trying to work out if existing vaccines remain effective or will new vaccines have be made or will 2 jabs be enough?
I can't see us back to anything approaching normal this year, unless something radically changes for example the vaccines are proven to prevent transmission and they are robust enough to provide protection for variants and mutations.