How long should society wait for a covid vaccine before giving into the herd immunity approach?

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I’d think part of the US has already given in / simply does not care.

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Well some people don't really have a choice if they are not able to work remotely. That's why I posed the question cause it's such a tricky dilemma when so many more jobs are being lost than lives to covid

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Herd immunity would result in 3 million deaths in the US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/coronavirus-herd-immunity-simulation-vaccine/

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I don’t know if there are Covid variants (like the flu), but my guess is that we’ll have varying degrees of Covid breakouts for years to come - even with a “vaccine” ... and clearly “herd immunity” doesn’t work with other viruses either (eg, flu)

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Herd immunity does work with flu. It's just that the strain changes every season.

Guys, it's only been 6 months into a global pandemic (for most of us). Didn't you guys watch Contagion? Did you seriously think this process was going to be faster than 1-2 years?

Your herd immunity idea? Well if we look at 1919 flu as an example, it took the world 3 winters to acquire herd immunity, so at least 2-2.5 years. Our current vaccine timeline is still faster than herd immunity.

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We need bigger bounties for vaccines to motivate the private sector
The rest of the world needs to step up and pay as much per dose for the winners to drive more $$$ to R&D especially as some scientists think a broad spectrum flu or corona vaccine may be possible

I think society is looking at the very short term at a traditional vaccine that will work for Covid 19 or 1-3 strains for flu. This will alleviate these current crisis.
More “pure research” is needed to “cure the common cold” or “cure corona” (broad spectrum multi-strain vaccines). All such research has been stopped for lack of funding.

I think this hypothetical would require a hypothetical range? Like is 100 years too long? Yeah. 100 days? No. And we’d also have interest on how many candidates have failed and why.

For example we clearly gave up on having a real solution for flu and just go about our lives while still researching. But would we make the same decision if we knew for sure in one year we’d have a much more successful vaccine rather than the marginally effective ones we have today.

Sorry Dexia. As you can see, I'm very sensitized to people drawing false analogies between flu and Covid 😂

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Question answers itself - we would literally be giving in after not even trying a serious solution.

Jobs come back. People don't.

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