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> Combined with the difficultly of creating coronavirus vaccines. I've read people attribute the lack of a good SARS1 vaccine due to the economics/capitalism, but there seems there more to it.

Yes. The reason there is no SARS1 vaccine is because SARS1 burned out after a year:

"The SARS global outbreak was contained in July 2003. Since 2004, there have not been any known cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world." [0]

[0] SARS (10 Years After) [2016] - https://www.cdc.gov/dotw/sars/index.html

There is no need for a SARS1 vaccine because that virus disappeared before the vaccines became available.




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