If you think the COVID-19 vaccine will save the day, think again: According to Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other infectious disease experts, the best that COVID-19e vaccines may do is prevent people becoming severely ill and dying.
Specifically, Fauci said of the vaccine currently being tested by Oxford University and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca: “I would have liked to have had protection against infection. But then again, it depends on what you’re looking for with the vaccine.
“That vaccine doesn’t look like it’s a knockout for protecting against infection, but it might be really very good at protecting against disease.”
SOURCE: The Vaccine Reaction July 13, 2020