So, I've suggested that we'll be chasing variants for a long time if we don't get SARCOV2 under control worldwide. I do find @zeynep's suggestion that the hippy-dippy rationale for global vaccination coverage is a strong(er) one. But a question for both of you...1/
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This is a different virus and a different mode of transmission. Fear of an airborne virus is very different from fear of hiv, which people (felt they) can control. It may take shame this time too, sure, but I think the scientific argument is absolutely valid
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Also where did the variants that emerged in South Africa and Brazil originate from? Immunocompromised patients? I haven't been following so don't know.
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I don’t think that is a proper analogy. In HIV, cART drugs suppress HIV replication by targeting various stages in the viral life cycle. So a large untreated population, which is not exposed to cART drugs, experiences no selective pressure to develop resistance mutations.
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No but millions of people unvaccinated just let stochastic mutations emerge too, which may simply hit the jackpot with resistance to vaccines, better transmissibility. etc.
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