The Guardian: Don’t bet on vaccine to protect us from Covid-19, says world health expert
Professor of global health at Imperial College, London warns we ‘may have to adapt’ to virus.
Humanity will have to live with the threat of coronavirus “for the foreseeable future” and adapt accordingly because there is no guarantee that a vaccine can be successfully developed, one of the world’s leading experts on the disease has warned.
The stark message was delivered by David Nabarro, professor of global health at Imperial College, London, and an envoy for the World Health Organisation on Covid-19, as the number of UK hospital deaths from the virus passed 15,000.
A further 888 people were reported on Saturday to have lost their lives – a figure described by communities secretary Robert Jenrick as “extremely sobering” – while the total number who have been infected increased by 5,525 to 114,217.
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WNU Editor: All the people that I know who are knowledgeable about this are telling me the same thing. Developing, manufacturing, distributing, and training people to administer the vaccine will take a long time. And there is also no guarantee that a vaccine will be found. Another complication that I have been told is that this an RNA based virus, which means it is easy for it to mutate into something else. I understand that presently there are now seven variations of the Covid-19 coronavirus. What this means for policy makers and governments is that if this pandemic continues and economic hardships increase, and a vaccine is not on the horizon, some hard decisions will need to be made on opening the economy. Bottom line. I call this the worse case scenario.
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