By Selwyn Duke
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself told us that during the 2017-18 influenza season, the flu vaccine was only 40 percent effective. Why is well understood: The strain of virus a vaccine is derived from often will not be the same one that’ll be prevalent during respiratory disease season. This is because viruses mutate. That’s what they do.
What public officials, not exactly like George Washington and the cherry tree, do is mutate their positions. This brings us to CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky’s statement, at a July 28 press conference, that the “big concern is the next [SARS-CoV-2 ] variant that might emerge, just a few mutations potentially away, could potentially evade our vaccines.”
Now, the vaccines were sold with, and many Americans took them predicated on, the idea that they’d keep us safe from COVID-19.
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