Why A Vaccine Won’t Be a Quick Fix for COVID-19

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Barry Bloom, PhD, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson research professor of public health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Robert Litan, PhD, JD, nonresident senior fellow, economic studies, the Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.

Gregory Poland, MD, professor of medicine, internist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

National Academies Press: “Discussion Draft of the Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine,” Sept. 1, 2020.

World Health Organization: “Draft Landscape of COVID-19 Candidate Vaccines,” accessed Sept. 1, 2020.

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U.S. Government Accountability Office: “Herd Immunity for COVID-19,” July 7, 2020.

Gallup Poll: “One in Three Americans Would not get COVID-19 Vaccine,” Aug. 7, 2020.

News Release, FDA, June 30, 2020.

The Lancet: “COVID-19 vaccine trials should seek worthwhile efficacy.”