观点新型冠状病毒

We must not wait idly for an elusive Covid-19 vaccine

A package of behavioural and drug-based interventions will save lives and better prepare us for the next crisis

The writer is director of The Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco

It is widely assumed that a Covid-19 vaccine will come to our rescue soon. This is unlikely to be true, but, more importantly, it is a dangerous assumption on which to plan the overall response to the pandemic.

In 1990, I hosted a London conference ironically titled “Malaria: Waiting for the Vaccine”. Malaria had been worsening and many believed that turning the tide was dependent on a vaccine. Years of research had failed to produce an effective product, but the vaccinologists were incorrigibly optimistic.

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