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Why a vaccine will not stop the COVID-19 pandemic right away explained – 7NEWS.com.au
While experts are confident one of the COVID vaccines being tested now will work, the world is still a long way from ending the pandemic.
Dr Umair Shah remembers the last mass vaccination campaign the US waged.
It was in 2009, when the H1N1 swine flu broke out in April, right at the end of the regular flu season.
That was very challenging, Shah said.
There were a lot of moving pieces. It took several weeks to months to not just organise but to implement and to do safely and effectively. And that was a mild pandemic.
Coronavirus is not a mild pandemic.
And while vaccine manufacturers, public health experts and federal governme…
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