If they come out with a Covid vaccine, how effective will it be?

Will it be like the flu vaccine? Many take it and still catch the flu.

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The big question is if it would be safe-vaccines usually take years to develop.Put me at the back of the queue.Only time would tell how effective it is.
I won’t have a flu jab- I’m concerned about side effects.
Pandemics come to end.It will be gone before a vaccine appears.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@TheSirfurryanimalWales No, it will not.

TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

@QuixoticSoulAll other Pandemics came to end.Why should this one be any different?
But other pandemics didn’t have governments trying to stop people getting it.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@TheSirfurryanimalWales By the time something becomes a pandemic, there is definitely an organized effort to stop it. And the way pandemics end vary with methods and timescales. Some are only ended by vaccines (smallpox), others are still here (AIDS). This one is definitely going to be with us through the mass vaccination campaign. Vaccines are already here, after all.