06 Jan 2021 / 08:25 H. Tow months is enough to identity the major side effects of the vaccines.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5: “If the COVID-19 virus mutates, God willing, the vaccine designed by scientists will still be effective,“ says an expert on whether it is necessary to create a new vaccine if the virus mutates.
Consultant Pediatrician at KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital Dr Musa Mohd Nordin said this is because the human body itself was ‘intelligent’, as it not only released antibodies to kill a virus, but also produced antibodies that had immunological memory.
He said, even if a person’s antibody level decreased, the human body had memory cells that could produce new antibodies when attacked by a virus.