There is no "the vaccine". Several different vaccines have been produced in different countries. And the one tested in the UK was as abysmal failure. Moderna's vaccine has not really been proven effective:
"The early data Moderna has provided is based on phase 1 trials which are meant to evaluate the safety and not the efficacy of the vaccine. Moreover, health experts have raised concerns that the data was not sufficient to judge the vaccine. For instance, the company provided data on eight of the 45 subjects who took part in the early study and did not provide data on the ages of the subjects - an important factor as COVID-19 is more serious for older patients."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greats...ernas-covid-19-vaccine-fails/?sh=66b6c598156c
Furthermore, since flu vaccines have historically has a success rate of only 10-40%, the same or almost the same result should be expected for coronavirus (another form of the flu virus). And no one should ignore the risk of death through vaccination. People who took the flu vaccines have died just from being vaccinated. Those figures have generally been under-reported.
A quick google search will yield information about the UK AstraZeneca vaccine that was briefly paused because of ONE patient possibly having a serious adverse reaction has already resumed, but you are exaggerating facts and making up stories. As if you hate the idea of a successful vaccine. It is way to easy to google that is why I suspect dishonesty.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-united-kingdom-3f3d4a9ed4fe4aecf76940a2187c1a45
The Moderna vaccine is nearing completion of 30K third phase and they expect to request Emergency Approval from FDA in November-Dec. The full blown FDA approval request, for making it available for everyone will obviously be requested after November. Most are saying we can realistically expect more than one type of vaccine by March 2021 at your local pharmacy, walmart, etc.
Moderna is planning to have 20 Million doses ready for emergency approval by end of 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/moderna-will-have-20m-coronavirus-vaccines-ready-by-years-end
As to flu effectiveness. "recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine." (CDC)
And that equates to reduction in MILLIONS of hospitalizations and who knows how many deaths. Flu vaccines are very effective if matched to the particular virus. For example the Flucelvaxquad 2020 will protect you from 4 common types of flu. If you get a different type it does not mean that it was not effective. It was only designed for the four it was designed for.
COVID-19 is not the flu. It does not have the same destructive payload as the flu. The Moderna mRNA 1273 is not manufactured the same way, it cannot be compared to the flu vaccine and anyone who attempts to do so is just babbling made up nonsense based on raw ignorance.
Just because we have taken along time in the past to develop vaccines does not mean that we have not been successful with this unprecedented effort to fight a war on a global epidemic. We are proving what can be accomplished when money is no object and governments get behind an all out war effort to stamp out a virus. I hope we will learn from this and continue stamping out others with the same aggressive immunology machinery we have put into operation because of this pandemic. It is a great time to be alive and part of an example of human cooperation in science and immunology and government funding, as well as others who have contributed their own private billions to this effort. God bless America.