@SW-User Well not saying you believe vaccines are the cure, not saying you're anti vax either but the majority of anti vaxxers on here when they talk about the vaccines, talk as if it was supposed to cure the pandemic. When I look it up, I get thousands of articles from professionals all saying the same thing, the vaccine does work but anti vaxxers want a cure and it's not a cure. There's never cures to viruses, if we can cure viruses we'd be able to cure genetic diseases also.
Nobody said vaccines were a cure, not even the scientists. It does keep you from going to a hospital on a bed though. Stats have been able to prove that most of the unvaccinated go to the hospitals.
I tried looking up your virologist and found nothing as a side note so have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not sure what is meant by prolonging the pandemic, it's a virus, even at the start, I expected it to stay like the flu only deadlier. I was under no impression that we weren't stuck with it but with vaccines, it's manageable.