Published 15:56 IST, June 16th 2020

Experts warn COVID-19 vaccines might be ineffective, come with 'limitation'

Experts warn as China's CanSino Biologics Inc. and giants like Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc have been profusely working to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.

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While several pharmaceuticals companies worldwide have scrambled to manufacture a potential solution for elimination of COVID-19 respiratory disease, a vaccine, an Imperial College London professor leing development of an experimental shot said that early vaccines might prove to be ineffective as y come with “limitation”. This statement comes as companies such as China's CanSi Biologics Inc. and giants like Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc, and Oxford Vaccine Group have been profusely working to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 infection.  

Speaking about effectiveness in treating respiratory disease caused by coronavirus, Shattock was quoted as saying that re was a possibility that a generic vaccine that protects against major severe disease would prove to be effective in combating COVID-19 disease in patient’s body. An immulogist and vaccine researcher at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, Dennis Burton, supporting that argument reportedly said that Vaccines need to protect against disease, t necessarily infection.  

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re are several "drawbacks"

One of fastest-moving experimental shots that have vanced into human trials showed an impact on severe disease, as per reports. Experts have claimed that only such a product if approved, might contribute to combating disease until a more effective version was invented by scientists. A drug development expert, also an associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Kinch, was quoted saying that while holding potential to save lives, such vaccines might le to complacency in lockdown-weary nations. re are several drawbacks, he ded. 

In ar statement, Kinch reportedly said, effectiveness of vaccine can be summarized in fact that day after someone gets immunized, y're going to assume y could go back to rmal life and everything has gone back to being fine. He ded people are t going to necessarily realize that y might still be susceptible to infection. However, according to World Health Organization, vaccines are among most effective weapons against infectious disease and prevent up to 3 million deaths a year, and yet, very few were 100 percent effective.  

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15:56 IST, June 16th 2020