I'll don my tinfoil hat for a moment. A combination of initial vaccine effectiveness estimates having to be downgraded, and variants reducing effectiveness further, along with the infectiousness data of vaccinated carriers putting the herd immunity targets at risk have public health authorities scrambling for the next potential solution.
The data out of Israel and other places is damning. Not in the sense that anti-vaxxers would like, but in the sense that we are still nowhere near containing this thing.
We either need better vaccines, or drugs. So yes, epidemiological standards will relax in the face of a worldwide pandemic, to some extent.
I'll don my tinfoil hat for a moment. A combination of initial vaccine effectiveness estimates having to be downgraded, and variants reducing effectiveness further, along with the infectiousness data of vaccinated carriers putting the herd immunity targets at risk have public health authorities scrambling for the next potential solution.
The data out of Israel and other places is damning. Not in the sense that anti-vaxxers would like, but in the sense that we are still nowhere near containing this thing.
We either need better vaccines, or drugs. So yes, epidemiological standards will relax in the face of a worldwide pandemic, to some extent.