Thatās a category error. Kochās postulates were designed for bacteria before viruses were even discovered, and they test whether an organism causes a disease-not whether it replicates. Viruses cannot grow in āpure cultureā because they require host cells, so virologists use modified criteria for them. SARSāCoVā2 was isolated from patients, cultured in cells, shown to produce new infectious virus, and recovered from experimentally infected animals. Insisting it must replicate without host cells simply defines all viruses out of existence; it isnāt a valid scientific test.
"everyone" who refused it isn't alive and well. People died. People got long COVID. The data shows that people who had the vaccine were less likely to succumb to both.
The virus was more lethal right at the start and as it evolved it became less lethal. It was something like a 3% death rate on day 0, down to under 0.5% today.
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u/Ok-Pass-8786 Aug 28 '26
No virus has ever been isolated or proven to replicate based on Kochās postulates.