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[BonelessCat]

What everyone seems to be missing here regarding vaccines is that the vaccine first must be effective. There are a bunch of diseases against which there is no effective vaccine and yet billions of dollars have been spent developing them: Dengue, herpes, EKC and HIV all top the list. A battery of HIV antivirals is now available but still no vaccine in spite of several billion spent in development. Then there is the issue of immune compromised of which there are so many annually that an effective flu antiviral does not qualify for orphan drug designation; that's more than 250k cases a year in the US alone (250k X $10,000 per drug course is what?).

The question of whether or not vaccines are effective as mass inoculation programs means nothing if there is no vaccine to mass inoculate. Similarly, if vaccinated people still get a disease, then what recourse is next?

There is no current Ebola vaccine and vaccine makers are pulling candidates from wee 1 safety trials like an oral surgeon pulling teeth working on a meth-head. Vaccine biopharmas make excuses for why they pull a drug even though there is a 5 billion dollar jackpot at the end? Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.