LeafByNiggle
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No, it just failed to protect you from infection in September. But it succeeded in protecting you from infection earlier. That is a good thing. It is not a total failure. If the rate of reproduction of the virus falls below 1.00, then the virus will eventually die out in the population. But currently the rate of reproduction is somewhat higher than 1.00, which means that for every person infection, that person on average will infect somewhat more that 1 other person, which leads to exponential spread. When enough people have been vaccinated, or have survived a recent infection, or just plain old died without infecting anyone, then the exponential spread will be reversed and the virus will decline to a low level, which is probably the best we can hope, for total removal from the wild has only happened with one other virus in human history, and that was small pox. We came close to eradicating polio world-wide, but it remained in just three countries. And now, after decades of not needing the polio vaccine in the US, the virus has just turned up detected in the waste water in New York City. No actual victim has been found yet, but since most of the US population is no longer vaccinated against polio, it would be really bad if it once again got a foothold here. So the covid vaccines are keeping people alive and are helping to reduce infections. They are not as big a success as we would have liked, but they are definitely not a failure.If your vaccine provides fleeting protection in the months of July and August but you get infected in September, then it failed to protect you from infection.
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