The bolded is important. I made a detailed post recently about how the US -- and for that matter, the rest of the world -- has done a piss-poor job of deciding on what the "goal" is. It SEEMS like our goal is utter eradication of the virus....which is fucking impossible, at least anytime soon (e.g., within the next decade). It's widespread, it can transmit asymptomatically, etc. It's endemic, and it's going to stay that way for a while.
Our goal SHOULD be to turn COVID the killer (a virus that kills too many, and hospitalizes WAY too many) into "COVID the head cold." Imagine if COVID had burst on the scene....and it was just another virus that caused a head cold? None of us would even know about it. A few scientists would note some interesting genetic markers in the virus, might even track it to its general origin, but otherwise, we'd be prescribing sudafed and chicken soup, and life wouldn't have changed. If we can use vaccines to turn it back INTO that....then that's how we should operate as a global society.
Widespread shots in arms can turn this from a deadly disease spreading worldwide to a relatively mild illness with a much slower spread. You know...like a cold or a mild flu. Which we long-ago decided we can all live with. It's kind of maddening.