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Just saw this article today where Moderna's CEO, Bancel, said: I believe SARS-Cov-2 is going to stay with humans forever,” Bancel said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “We're going to have to have boosts adapted to a virus, like we have for flu. It's the same thing, they are both mRNA viruses, and we're going to have to live with it forever.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coro...ay-with-us-forever-moderna-ceo-224622557.html
Just as I thought...it will never end. And JUST like the flu shot, it's going to be given every year. Maybe a couple times a year. Only unlike the flu shot, it will (eventually) be required.
No, the virus will always be around just like other viruses. It will probably never be reduced to the number of polio cases because there will be so many who don't get vaccinated that will give it a host. He can't know if it will need a boost every year yet. He can only speculate. So far it has not had the kind of mutation that would cause the vaccines being used now not to work. It is possible that it could mutate to the point that the vaccine will have to be tweaked with a new mRNA vaccine.
Calling them mRNA viruses might have been a misspeak. Maybe he meant to say they are viruses that can be treated with mRNA vaccines. Not sure what a mRNA virus means. The mRNA is genetic code from the virus.
Flu shots are not required. Why would COVID shots be required? If those that get vaccinated reach the 70% that produce herd immunity then the smaller numbers that continue to get infected from the unvaccinated passing it to one another will not be something that anyone will try to control. They will be left to their own devices to live or not live. It won't really matter to the 70% what they do.