We are pinning all our hopes on the vaccines getting us out of this pandemic - what if it doesn’t?
The 2018 Flu Vaccine was only 29% effective. That was because by the time the vaccine had been manufactured a new strain had become dominant on which the vaccine didn’t work.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/flu-vaccine-had-another-disappointing-year-will-this-year-be-different
None of the current vaccines have been tested on the new mutant strain of covid. They are hoping the vaccines will still work, but they don’t know, they are just hoping.
A very depressing thought, but one we should not dismiss. Boris says 13 million vaccinations in the next 6 weeks. I guess we will know after that