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Why a Covid vaccine won't be a ‘get out of jail’ card

12 September 2020

12:17 AM

12 September 2020

12:17 AM

When Covid-19 vaccines arrive, are people going to agree to have them? Most of the world’s advanced economies have chosen to suppress the circulation of the Covid virus, SarsCoV-2, by lockdown, to great economic and social cost. And each of these national choices has been predicated on the assumption that the vaccines now under development will soon be available, will be protective, and will by their general distribution prevent further circulation of the virus.

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Dr Philip Mortimer was formerly director of the Virus Reference Laboratory, Colindale

 


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