Vaccines against covid-19 are the biggest game-changer which is expected to protect us and return to normalcy in 2021. There is no doubt that vaccines will create a shield of protection and will help the recipient fight against the virus. What we should know about the vaccines is that it will still take months for everybody to get vaccinated and return back to normal life.
The arrival of vaccines in December lifted hopes that they would eventually slow or stop the spread of the disease through the rest of the population. But vaccines alone are not enough, and if precautions like working remotely, limiting travel, and wearing masks are relaxed too soon, it could mean millions of more infections and thousands of more deaths.
The number of people with immunity — those who have had the disease and recovered, plus those who have been vaccinated — be large enough to take the wind out of the pandemic, said Jeffrey Shaman, a public health researcher at Columbia.
Social distancing, masking, and other measures should remain in place lifting them too early before the whole world gets vaccinated can bring another threat for us. After all, we cannot only rely on the vaccine to help us fight the pandemic.
“There are people who are going to want to relax the controls we have in place,” experts said. “If we start thinking, ‘We’ve got a vaccine, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, we can stop in a couple of months’ — that’s way too soon.”
The coming months are critical in the race to reduce new infections and deaths since there will ultimately be fewer people for the virus to infect as the pandemic drags on.
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