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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Covid vaccine could come in a year, but life-as-usual years away, says WHO chief scientist -Sandhya Ramesh

Covid vaccine could come in a year, but life-as-usual years away, says WHO chief scientist -Sandhya Ramesh

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published Published on Apr 26, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 28, 2020

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At ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan sought to bust many myths around Covid-19, including its rumoured origin in a Wuhan lab.

Bengaluru: A vaccine for the Covid-19 could emerge in about a year, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has said, even as she sought to highlight the possibility of the novel coronavirus becoming a seasonal virus like the influenza, or an endemic infection.

In conversation with the ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta at the third digital Off The Cuff Saturday, Swaminathan said the fact that seven vaccines are in human clinical trials within three months of a pathogen’s discovery was ”unprecedented”.

She said it is important to start approaching Covid-19 in a more balanced manner. Eventually, she added, enough people may develop immunity, through antibodies or vaccination, and the disease may no longer be so catastrophic. “But for the next year or two, we should expect to see this virus continue to cause disease,” she said.

During the conversation, Swaminathan also offered a scientific explanation to dismiss rumours that the virus was made in a laboratory, and other myths related to Covid-19.

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ThePrint.in, 26 April, 2020, https://theprint.in/theprint-otc/covid-vaccine-could-come-in-a-year-but-life-as-usual-years-away-says-who-chief-scientist/409417/


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