I wonder how hard it will be to modify current vaccines so they do more to prevent transmission?
I'm glad I'm vaccinated and (so far) well protected against serious illness, but at least half the reason I got vaccinated was to help prevent the spread of COVID. That part of the benefit of the vaccine has been reduced, if not negated, by Delta.
Even if suddenly everyone suddenly got vaccinated we'd have much lower rates of hospitalization and death for a time, but the virus would once again be free to spread and mutate at a high rate, just as it is right now.
I fear it won't be long until a new variant comes along that breaks through the personal health protections of current vaccines. And while I'm awfully pissed off at the anti-vaxxers here in the US, even if we had much higher vaccine compliance here there's a whole mostly unvaccinated planet full of people cooking up new variants out there beyond our borders too.
I'm hoping an updated vaccine can be made available soon that brings back lower transmission rates for the vaccinated.
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