I actually looked the author up as well. I was pretty surprised that what seem to be pretty glaring grammatical errors made their way into what ostensibly is a pretty important article. I wonder if he would publish it with Forbes on the condition that nothing was reworded.
I found the arguments lacking. I don't think there was any plan on preventing infection on the first batch of vaccines, and even the FDA does recommend a minimum of 50% efficacy.
Infection prevention or preventing severe symptoms, are however part of the secondary endpoints of the trials, something that it is not mentioned in the article.
This shows you didn't read the full article, especially the part at the bottom—the author's bio:
"I am a scientist, businessman, author, and philanthropist. For nearly two decades, I was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health where I founded two academic research departments, the Division of Biochemical Pharmacology and the Division of Human Retrovirology. I am perhaps most well known for my work on cancer, HIV/AIDS, and genomics. My work now also includes efforts to improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare for people in low, middle, and high income countries alike. I am chair and president of ACCESS Health International, a nonprofit organization I founded that fosters innovative solutions to the greatest health challenges of our day. Each of my articles at Forbes.com will focus on a specific healthcare challenge and offer best practices and innovative solutions to overcome those challenges for the benefit of all."
I imagine it’s difficult to determine whether someone has been infected given the short lived and unproven nature of the antibody response. Symptoms, on the other hand, can be self reported.
Here's hoping these "vaccines" aren't mandatory. I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but if I'm going to get a new vaccine, it better do more than keep me from getting the sniffles from one specific virus.
I think most, if not all, all vaccines prevent you from getting (the symptoms of) a specific infection. Plus, vaccinations do not prevent mutation if only some of a population gets them.
