CORONAVIRUS DEATHS: HAS THE EFFORT TO FIND A CURE STALLED OR FAILED?

ICHEOKU says Pfizer CEO recently said that they have the capacity to supply enough vaccines for booster shots as well as whatever the amount of doses of vaccines that will be needed for the unvaccinated to get vaccinated. But he did not say anything about a continuing effort by his company to develop a real vaccine that will finally take care of business instead of the adjunct vaccines that constitute the current "doses" and "booster shots." Why can't Pfizer just develop a 'one-dose-fix-it' vaccine and be done with it. But no, they have figured out how to continue making billions from producing "multiple-shots" vaccines, hence there is no more incentive at finding a cure for the disease with a vaccine that actually works. How about retooling. 

First was that we have to rush to find a vaccine, then it became that we needed a dose of the vaccine, then a second dose of the vaccine and now they are contemplating a third dose of the vaccine. At the rate they are going, we will eventually some day be required to get a fourth dose, a fifth dose, a sixth dose and so on until it becomes a monthly vaccination. It is possible too that  a time will come when coronavirus vaccination will start competing with Apples' iPhone on which product will get the most versions and models. Since Steve Jobs died, Apple has lost its once epochal innovative edge and instead of entirely new different products, have somewhat  stagnated at just, periodically, upgrading the same old products, reformatted in various versions. How about a product that can make a blind to see or can magnetically zap our pains away? Now iPhone version 13 is about to roll out and you wonder whether we will someday see iPhone 100. Is coronavirus vaccine headed in the same direction too?

What does the series of coronavirus vaccinations upon vaccination say about the efficacy of the vaccine when similar vaccines of yore such as vaccinations for polio, measles or smallpox were all a one-shot deal. Is commercial profit the reason the coronavirus vaccination is turning into a periodic exercise which has left many people wondering what is the use of getting it anyway when it does not protect people from getting the disease and in some cases, still dying from it too. Why continue the needling and poking of their skin if they will not become immune from the disease as a result. Vaccination by its essence is to inoculate against and prevent a disease from infecting and taking root in a person or animal. But when vaccinated people end up still becoming infected, hospitalized and in some case still dying from the virus, what then is the use of getting vaccinated. 

Researchers and medical scientists need to go back to their laboratories, honker down and stay there until they find a true vaccine which will be a real panacea for the coronavirus disease, the real McCoy. The rushed out vaccines are not sufficiently working, at least, not as effectively as was anticipated and hoped for. Instead of the patchwork vaccines which now require more doses and every so often, and which is gradually getting our bodies used to it that it no longer provides the immunity expected, and making people susceptible to infection and vulnerable to the disease, effort needs to be doubled on finding a vaccine that will be an effective antidote to the coronavirus disease. The tale that the lingering infections, hospitalizations and deaths is the pandemic of the unvaccinated is not true because even fully vaccinated people are dying as well.

Enough of the focus on how many vials that could be sold and at such a humungous profit to a desperate world, scarred stiff of the coronavirus. It is time to refocus attention on finding a silver-bullet vaccine that will knock out the coronavirus for good. The government and regulators should sit on pharmaceuticals companies and make them develop a vaccine that will be truly effective against the virus without any further delay. They can do it. If they could develop the vaccines now being injected into people's arms, they can also redouble their effort and develop vaccines which will in fact be really effective against the virus. On a layman's level, this can be achieved, at least, by increasing whatever derivatives and properties in the composition of the current vaccines. The present lack of cure and total immunity is in a way hampering full vaccination as many unvaccinated people are asking what is the point anyway getting a vaccine that won't do the job. 

At this rate of booster shots, what is the guarantee that we will not eventually become permanently dependent on coronavirus vaccination for the rest of our lives. With more doses being recommended and required, we may end up getting as many doses as even a dozen at some point down the line. It might also even become a daily or weekly or monthly or yearly rendezvous with the needle. The frequent vaccinations might even alter and damage our bodies so much that we become like diabetics, requiring self-injected daily shots of the vaccine to keep us from completely unravelling. But are Americans prepared to inject themselves very so often because of the coronavirus disease. So, instead of all these repeat doses, effort should be made at finding a one dose shot that will be the mother of all vaccines that will end the coronavirus.

ICHEOKU says with the emergence of new variants and the continuing diminishment in efficacy of current vaccines, there is a need to reassess and reconfigure our thinking about the disease, to enable us redirect our energy towards finding a permanent cure. A much improved vaccine that would smother the virus for good and put everyone at rest is the answer. Too many people have already died from the disease and many more people are still dying from the disease, including those who were already fully vaccinated, who did everything they were told to do in order to stay alive but who ended up dying anyway. It has been explained away as "break through" cases, but why was the virus able to break through the shield of the vaccine? It is time this scourge finally ended and every effort should be made to see it ended. It is doable, it can be done and we can do it as Americans; but first, the pharmaceutical companies must be persuaded to do it. Say no to more coronavirus deaths.