Will everyone get a Covid inoculation when it’s ready?

This is a bit of a pie-in-the-sky discussion, because for all the hyper-optimism expressed by some officials, our contemporary track record developing vaccines for common respiratory viruses is piss poor.

Flu vaccinations could be considered the most significant success, but are a crapshoot - every year, 50 million of Americans still get the flu, and of the people who get vaccinated, around 10% get a flu-like illness in response to the vaccine, which needs to be re-done annually. And although the vaccine is certainly not a scam, vaccination rates vary dramatically across first-world nations (e.g., Germany vs the UK), without vastly different health outcomes.

I.e., if we had a similarly successful vaccine for COVID-19, it probably wouldn't make a huge difference in the dynamics of the disease - although it would probably put people at ease and have beneficial economic consequences and such.

Forced immunizations are an interesting topic. We don't mandate flu vaccinations (spare for a handful of situations), but we do mandate vaccinations against more lethal diseases. Hard to tell where COVID-19 would fall, but either way, you can bet it would be hugely controversial. You may see state-by-state differences, etc.

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