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Indeed, when people are confronted with the fact that vaccines are mostly made to reduce risks but not necessarily to confer full protection from infection, suspicions arise about the vaccine's effectiveness.
Vaccine-induced immunity is commonly interpreted as an impenetrable shield from infection, rather than as a reduction in the risk of developing severe complications. Vaccines reduce but do not eliminate risk of infection The fact that vaccines are mainly risk mitigators, reducing the probability that individuals will develop severe complications from a viral infection resulting in hospitalizations, death, or debilitating long term illnesses, is not well understood by the public. But despite their centrality in public health, vaccines often fail at providing full protection from infection. To be sure, vaccines save lives, and indeed have saved many lives in the context of COVID-19. That is why the best hope of ending the COVID-19 pandemic-and potential future pandemics-requires that policymakers formulate yet another bold plan, an Operation Warp Speed for therapeutics. Increasing the range of antivirals requires government funding for drug development and clinical trials. They are Molnupiravir by drugmaker Merck, and Paxlovid by Pfizer. Surprisingly, only two antiviral treatments specific for SARS-CoV-2 have been produced and approved for emergency use in the United States, as well as in other countries. There is abundant room to speed the development of effective treatments. Treatments are not only an important instrument in fighting pandemics but can be critical to the control of viral transmission. One reason is that even updated vaccines will not likely overcome viral mutations providing full protection from infection. It is now time to learn the lesson of that achievement and devote similar government resources to expanding treatment of the SARS-CoV-2 virus disease as the best way to protect the health of the world population. In the United States, the vaccine success story resulted largely from massive US government intervention and expenditure under Operation Warp Speed. But the production and distribution of vaccines-in many countries at least-have largely succeeded in reducing deaths, hospitalizations, and severe cases of the disease, despite the proliferation of coronavirus mutations and the refusal of too many Americans to take the vaccine. More than two years have passed since the virus that causes COVID-19 spread across the globe, causing more than a million deaths in the United States alone.
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