Which Vaccine???

Seems there are many options.

Where I live it looks as if they will be giving the Sputnik to the locals, with no plans to give it to visitors, toruists, resident aliens, and illegals. I was doubtful about it being from Russia, but yesterdays news announced a 91% efficacy.

Then there are a number of others out there...

These are the ones developed so far:

BBIBP-CorV (China)

Sputnik V COVID-19 (Russia)

Pfizer–BioNTech

Moderna

Oxford–AstraZeneca

EpiVacCorona (Russia)

CoronaVac (China)

Ad5-nCoV (China)

BBV152 (India)

 

According to Wikipedia there are about twenty others also under development or in testing.

BTW - this thread is not for Anti-Vaxxers.

 

From Wikipedia:

The effectiveness of a new vaccine is defined by its efficacy. In the case of COVID‑19, a vaccine efficacy of 67% may be enough to slow the pandemic, but this assumes that the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, which is necessary to prevent transmission. Vaccine efficacy reflects disease prevention, a poor indicator of transmissibility of SARS‑CoV‑2 since asymptomatic people can be highly infectious. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) set a cutoff of 50% as the efficacy required to approve a COVID‑19 vaccine. As of 7 January, authorized and approved vaccines have shown efficacies ranging from 62–90% for the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine (various dosage regimens) to 95% for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine. BBV152 has not published efficacy results as of 7 January. With BBIBP-CorV, Sinopharm announced a vaccine's efficacy was 79%, which was lower than the 86% announced by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 9 December. The UAE based its results on an interim analysis of Phase III trials conducted from July.[375] With CoronaVac, after three delays in releasing results, Instituto Butantan announced in January 2021 that the vaccine was 78% effective in mild cases and 100% effective against severe and moderate infections based on 220 COVID‑19 cases from 13,000 volunteers. Butantan declined to elaborate how the efficacy rate was calculated. The efficacy of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine is 96% for those aged 18 to 64.The Novavax vaccine was found to be 89% effective in the UK.[379]
At the University of Oxford, researchers have as of early February 2021 begun enrolling volunteers in an 820 person trial to evaluate the efficacy of combining two different vaccines, a mix and match approach, as opposed to using two doses of the same vaccine. The ultimate goal of the study will be find whether the mix and match method is just as or more effective than the currently used practice. The study will utilize the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca shot, two vaccines which rely on different methods to deliver information to the cells of the recipient. Ugur Sahin has voiced his opposition to the trial in December, stating that a study "“will use up doses that people who need them could profit from, I am not happy about this,” though Pfizer and AstraZeneca have supported the trals.

 

No I doubt there will be a buffet available! I just want us all to know about the options, which seem few but are there.

I have heard reports of medical tourism regarding vaccines. A tale of a rich couple posing as hotel workers in Canada to jump the line was distressing.

There are reports about people of color not having access to the vaccine... will things NEVER CHANGE?

 

Lucky you! Or at least I hope so... let us know how that second shot goes.

Are you still being careful in pubic regardless of having had the vaccine?

I wonder about all the variants and how effective the existing vaccine will work against them. There is so much conflicting information...

 

I plan on doing the same until mass herd immunity is achieved.

That may never happen. Once Pandora's box is opened....

You know the rest of the story!

 

There you go Mally! Always a funny comment, I LOVE it!

 

Very sensibly said.