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9 reasons why Covid vaccine will be widely available in 2021

Business Standard | 30/08/2020 07:59 AM | Click to read full article

“I am an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Virginia, here is why I think you can be optimistic about the delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine.”

SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t mutate the way that HIV does, making it a much easier target for the immune system to subdue or for a vaccine to control. A vaccine will protect by inducing the production of antibodies against the spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2.

 

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