Announcing it might have meant that people who wait to get vaccinated till the new version arrives get better protection which is a message that the people at the CDC hate to tell people.
That might be enough to push the institutions into a state where they won’t develop a slightly better vaccine that doesn’t add much when it might make people more skeptical of taking the current one?
Yes, at least that’s also my understanding—especially since we are still vaccinating new people, not just giving out boosters. My point is just that it seems like we shouldn’t rely on updated vaccines being able to change the course of the pandemic in a major way.
Presumably we still should have shifted everything over anyway, it’s a freeroll that can only help?
Announcing it might have meant that people who wait to get vaccinated till the new version arrives get better protection which is a message that the people at the CDC hate to tell people.
That might be enough to push the institutions into a state where they won’t develop a slightly better vaccine that doesn’t add much when it might make people more skeptical of taking the current one?
Yes, at least that’s also my understanding—especially since we are still vaccinating new people, not just giving out boosters. My point is just that it seems like we shouldn’t rely on updated vaccines being able to change the course of the pandemic in a major way.