Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Covid cases and deaths plunged in the summer of 2021 off of a peak (from Delta), only to run up again in the months afterward.

He is doing a comparison to the time that Covid cases and deaths plunged, prior to Omicron coming on and changing the course of the pandemic.

Do we know that Covid (all variants included) is going to follow a very predictable seasonal pattern year after year? Because without knowing that (or it being true), a year over year comparison is no more meaningful than if he compared rates today to September of last year when deaths were 5 times higher.

 

All evidence is that the current vaccines with a spike protein based on the original variant still provide some protection against the later variants, along with a memory cell response that has kept a lot of people from severe disease, hospitalization and/or death.

I wouldn't personally call that a middling response. That vaccine has saved (and still is) a ton of lives.

FWIW, there will probably be new mRNA vaccines with spike proteins geared toward later variants this fall.