Using a "leaky" vaccine that prevents death but does not prevent variants, reinfection, or transmission may actually increase deaths in the long term.

How could this be? Put simply, if you have a disease variant which is highly deadly in a non-vaccinated person, it dies off with the host. If, however, you provide a vaccine that prevents the death in the vaccinated person but the deadly strain is still able to multiply in the host and be transmitted equally by a host that is not as sick and thus more active in the community, larger numbers of venerable and non-immunized become at risk to die.

Of course, if the same protective vaccine was given to all (100%) of individuals across the globe, the protective effect would be universal. The inconvenient truth is we do not expect to see universal vaccination status thus a concern for more deaths long term if vaccinated individuals become the main harbor for the virus.

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