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The mRNA vaccines have a turnaround of only a few weeks to produce a variant booster, so this is less of a concern than with older vaccine technologies. Moderna and Pfizer are currently trialing their SA strain booster that was formulated and produced in under a month [1][2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/24/moderna-covid-vaccine-booste... [2] https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/25/is-more-simply-better-wh...

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It takes months to manufacture and distribute though.

It won't help if the virus mutates to a form that can escape the immune system.

Big pharma has deep pockets and believe me, this is part of their plan. Vaccine passports are the big pharma wet dream come to life. For a disease that 99.85% recover from.

For something that they're selling at cost? Your conspiracy detector is a bit off there.

99+%* recover when there's available medical care. There wasn't nearly enough for the entire population if it were allowed to spread unchecked. That's why most countries are going to vaccinate as much as they can until there's enough herd immunity.

* The 0.15% number is absurd when larger percentages of the US and UK population have died from Corona. Even if 100% were infected, IFR would have to be larger.

Lies and hate is all I read in your comment. Your numbers are made up entirely.

You seem to be subdividing into "lived therefore recovered" and "died therefore did not recover". You're ignoring both long-COVID which people can recover from after months and long term organ damage seen even in outwardly asymptomatic people.

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