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How long after a pandemic starts should a vaccine be released? Give me a number please.
For a pandemic with a really high survival rate? Like a 99% survival rate?
5-10 years makes sense to me
If the survival rate was different, my answers here would be different
So death is the only metric? Long COVID isn't a metric? Just missing two weeks of work isn't a metric? Because we don't get flu vaccines because we're worried about dying from the flu, we get them because we want to avoid getting the flu and avoid the worst symptoms if we do. And that's even true of other vaccines. The polio vaccine wasn't about stopping death, it was about stopping the crippling effects of polio. Sort of similar to the crippling effects of COVID.
The worst symptoms are death. I see your point about extending the metrics, and maybe I should consider more than just dying, but I think it's a strong factor in why this whole thing seems over blown in the way mandates and restrictions came.
For polio, it was about stopping death, paralysis is a death sentence in most places in the world.