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* Flu, which has a particularly high mutation rate, does exactly that: in some years the flu vaccine is only 10% effective.

* Most viruses are less infectious than covid, especially delta covid.

* The covid vaccines are novel, targeting a specific protein. Natural immunity targets more than one protein, I've heard up to 28 in case of covid. This should make vaccine escape much harder, as it is significantly more difficult to mutate around 28 proteins at the same time. By 'natural immunity' I mean immunity gained by exposure to the natural pathogen, either through live infection or an inactivated pathogen vaccine.



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