World Health Organization: Vaccines won t end the pandemic in the near future Print this article
Don’t expect the coronavirus pandemic to end anytime soon, U.S. and international public health officials say, despite the nascent vaccine rollout.
“These vaccines are not a silver bullet that will end the pandemic in the near future,” the World Health Organization’s Takeshi Kasai, the agency’s lead official for the Western Pacific, told reporters.
A string of regulatory approvals for vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna has raised hopes that the worst of the pandemic could soon pass, but the production and distribution of the vaccine is a major task in its own right. And officials remain uncertain about whether the inoculation provides a hard stop to the spread of the infection or simply protects the recipient from a severe case of the disease.