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Note that aledalgrande’s original post above was speaking specifically about annual vaccination. That is is a completely different league than the common vaccines that require a booster shot every decade or so, and are much easier for people moving around internationally to plan around.

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All those vaccines were also tested much more extensively and use techniques which have been widely deployed for much longer than the Covid vaccines.

This is exactly the point. We have decades of evidence for most vaccines and you only need them infrequently. That's a world away from a 6m old vaccine that hasn't been through the normal approval process.

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