an hour agoOBS: Belief in crucial vaccines for curbing COVID-19
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(6 years ago)At a time when good news of a vaccine against COVID-19 has brought a wave of optimism, public distrust of immunization can make production efficiency useless, warns WHO's communications sector chief. A vaccine that remains on a refrigerator or refrigerator or on a shelf and is not used does [...]
“A vaccine that remains on a refrigerator or refrigerator or on a shelf and doesn't do anything to stop this pandemic”, Catherine O'Brien stressed in an interview.
On Monday, American Pfizer and German BioNTech announced that their vaccine was effective by 90%, according to preliminary results of their tested vaccine in the III phase to more than 400,000 people, the ATS reports.
Professor O'Brien pointed out that these results, even though preliminary results were very important and added that she hoped in the records of several other vaccines, even those in the final phase of testing on people.
“If full data shows that one or more of these vaccines are very effective, it would be very effective to equip our toolbox with a new instrument against pandemic”, she stressed.
But she is deeply concerned about disinformation and conspiracy theories, when the pandemic is far from being controlled and has already caused nearly 1.3 million deaths.
There Is a Need to Increase Faith That O The BSH will not make any concessions on the security or efficiency of the vaccines it considers.
