Time to establish an international vaccine candidate pool for potential highly infectious respiratory disease: a community's view.

ABSTRACT: In counteracting highly infectious and disruptive respiratory diseases such as COVID-19, vaccination remains the primary and safest way to prevent disease, reduce the severity of illness, and save lives. Unfortunately, vaccination is often not the first intervention deployed for a new pandemic, as it takes time to develop and test vaccines, and confirmation of safety requires a period of observation after vaccination to detect potential late-onset vaccine-associated adverse events. In the meantime, nonpharmacologic public health interventions such as mask-wearing and social distancing can provide some degree of protection. As climate change, with its environmental impacts on pathogen evolution and international mobility continue to rise, highly infectious respiratory diseases will likely e

SUBMITTER: Yao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10550631 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature