I agree with you. We must continue to encourage research, because vaccination is the ultimate solution in the medium term.
We are going through a stage like the one that preceded the current combined drug treatments. For over 50 years, a prevention treatment used chloroquine. For 50 years, that worked.
But when the resistance started to build up, there was a transition phase of 10 to 15 years when there were no alternatives. Research needed to be sped up to find solutions with drug combinations. The transition phase must also be found to manage the period before the vaccine. Before the vaccine is found, we must continue to focus on prevention and on treating the reported cases.