There certainly were stupid comments by politicians on this topic. But I don't think the vaccines were oversold, they did exactly what was claimed initially.
That the virus would mutate this much was not something that scientists could have predicted at that point. I don't mean that it was entirely unexpected, but there simply wasn't any way to forecast how much it would mutate in advance.
The updated vaccines against newer strains still did their job at preventing death and serious illness. But they couldn't prevent infection for the new strains.
Some politicians and parts of the media were quite bad at handling the way the pandemic changed over time. But it was still easily possible to get good information about them.
> That the virus would mutate this much was not something that scientists could have predicted at that point.
The common scientific consensus has always been "Don't vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic" because it would cause more variants. This was one of the things they absolutely violated.
> The updated vaccines against newer strains still did their job at preventing death and serious illness.
No this is not true at all. Most deaths occurred after vaccinations rolled out.
That the virus would mutate this much was not something that scientists could have predicted at that point. I don't mean that it was entirely unexpected, but there simply wasn't any way to forecast how much it would mutate in advance.
The updated vaccines against newer strains still did their job at preventing death and serious illness. But they couldn't prevent infection for the new strains.
Some politicians and parts of the media were quite bad at handling the way the pandemic changed over time. But it was still easily possible to get good information about them.