We can all agree that getting vaccinated is clearly the optimal decision to make. I'm on my third shot of Moderna and am scheduled for my fourth in October.

That being said, I am a little confused about the relationship between covid variants and the vaccine.

From what I've been able to find out, the covid vaccine would be able to end the pandemic, if only everyone would get it. But because there are anti-vaxxers who haven't, the virus has been able to evolve to evade the vaccine-conferred immunity.

My question is this - how will we be able to end the pandemic through vaccination, if there are currently variants that are able to infect vaccinated people?