It's important to remember that vaccines do not protect 100% of people who are vaccinated. Even the spectacularly good smallpox vaccine has a success rate estimated at 95-98%. That's great unless you're one of the 2-5% who get the disease. Multiply by, say, 330 million people, and you can see that even if everyone in the U.S. were vaccinated against smallpox (which most people are not -- no one was vaccinated after about 1980 except some front-line healthcare workers) -- there would be a lot of very sick people if there were an outbreak. Also, people with impaired immune system and certain diseases CANNOT be vaccinated safely.

COVID vaccines are likely to be less effective than the smallpox vaccine.

There will ALWAYS be a need for treatments, and given that it will be at least a year before there is enough vaccine for the U.S. population, and given that half of people are afraid of the vaccine and won't take it -- treatments are the answer to the virus.

Also, you probably read that Denmark is killing millions of minks, which have developed a mutated form of the COVID virus. They don't know whether the current vaccines being developed would protect against this mutation.

It was exceedingly foolish of the CDC and the Defense Department, which administers the BARDA grants, to abruptly stop grants for treatment to focus on a vaccine which will not help most of the people in this country and the world for another year at best.