A coronavirus vaccine won’t mean the immediate end of face masks and social distancing, a top scientist in the field warns.
As Business Insider reported, Maria Elena Bottazzi, a vaccine developer at Baylor College of Medicine, says that a vaccine won’t be the magic bullet that people seem to be hoping for.
“[People] automatically are going to say, ‘oh great, I’m just going to get my little vaccine, and I can go back and do exactly the things I was doing last year.’ That is absolutely not true,” she said.
The problem is that immunizations are rarely 100 percent effective against a disease in 100 percent of recipients. So-called “sterilizing immunity” is rare among vaccines; indeed, the second-best-case scenario is that a vaccine will immunize some recipients against it, and make others less likely to develop complications from the illness.
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