![]() In our haste to recapture a sense of normalcy, however, we risk prolonging the pandemic by not just months, but potentially years. We all want this crisis to be over with-and for good. But if an only partially effective vaccine is authorized for mass use, whatever effectiveness there may be in reducing infection could be more than swamped by new infections that are the result of people letting down their guard. The public health risks that contribute to such resurgences, like congregating in large groups, and the risks of rushing out a vaccine tend to be treated as separate concerns. Across Europe, we’re seeing what happens when people let their guard down in countries like Spain, Italy, and France, rates of infection and hospitalization now exceed those accumulated during the first wave. If vaccines for Covid-19 aren’t held to the highest safety and efficacy standards we can muster, they could very well exacerbate, not mitigate, the pandemic. But such accounts, if they do exist, are currently shrouded in secrecy. The second of the two vectors, Ad5, was also used in one of four vaccines that hundreds of thousands are reportedly receiving in China, developed by CanSino Biologics. It would be beneficial to researchers and developers everywhere if data on the adverse side effects of these vaccines was made available to the general public, especially since other countries are buying them up by the millions. ![]() Somewhat worrying is that Ad26 is one of two adenovirus vectors used in the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, which the country’s Ministry of Health approved before a large-scale trial had even begun. ![]()
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