Not at all.
The vaccines may help to reduce the chance for hospitalization and death, especially among those with co-morbidities.
For Fauci to co-author a statement that mucosal respiratory viruses have never been effectively controlled by vaccines after saying the Covid vaccines prevent infection, transmission, hospitalization and death is damning.
The guy's been doing virology and epidemiology for 40+ years.
Are you saying that 'prevent infection, transmission, hospitalization and death" = effectively controlled.
We do know that vaccines have been effective in controlling a number of viral diseases: smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, hib, rotavirus, polio, and so on.
We already knew respiratory viruses have resisted control by vaccines. This is not a new observation or shocking revelation.
The annual flu shots have been beneficial. They have, in the words of the article, been less than optimal. However, they do prevent infection, transmission, hospitalization and death. The same is true of the Covid shots.
The news is the increased understanding of why we don't develop a natural immunity to mucosal respiratory viruses, and possible new approaches to developing next generation vaccines.