#226 Re: Corona cjepivo/vakcina - News
Posted: 08/08/2020 21:24
“Not to engender sympathy, but I have not had a single day off since the very beginning of January, when we decided that we going to start working like crazy on a vaccine,” Fauci said on Friday, Aug. 7, to a virtual audience of many thousands.
Some vaccines guarantee a certain level of protection, Fauci said — measles vaccines, for example, carry an efficacy rate of nearly 98%. “You don’t have to worry about anything else, you just get yourself vaccinated and you’re protected,” he said.
But in dealing with novel coronavirus, a virus for which a vaccine depends on capturing a natural immune response just as well or better than a human body can create, researchers aren’t yet sure what the efficacy rate will look like.
“But the chances of it being 98% are not great...” Fauci explained. “Which means you must never abandon the public health approach. You’ve got to think of a vaccine as a tool to be able to get a pandemic to no longer be a pandemic, but to be something that’s well-controlled.”
When it comes to disease, there’s control, elimination and eradication, he explained. Scientists have only eradicated a single human infection in the history of the world — smallpox. But they’ve effectively eliminated polio and malaria in the United States and controlled other diseases to significant levels.
“What I’m shooting for is that with a vaccine and good public health measures, we can bring it down to somewhere between really good control and elimination,” he said. “So that’s what a vaccine is going to do, but it’s not going to do that alone.”
https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-08-07/fauci-sph
Some vaccines guarantee a certain level of protection, Fauci said — measles vaccines, for example, carry an efficacy rate of nearly 98%. “You don’t have to worry about anything else, you just get yourself vaccinated and you’re protected,” he said.
But in dealing with novel coronavirus, a virus for which a vaccine depends on capturing a natural immune response just as well or better than a human body can create, researchers aren’t yet sure what the efficacy rate will look like.
“But the chances of it being 98% are not great...” Fauci explained. “Which means you must never abandon the public health approach. You’ve got to think of a vaccine as a tool to be able to get a pandemic to no longer be a pandemic, but to be something that’s well-controlled.”
When it comes to disease, there’s control, elimination and eradication, he explained. Scientists have only eradicated a single human infection in the history of the world — smallpox. But they’ve effectively eliminated polio and malaria in the United States and controlled other diseases to significant levels.
“What I’m shooting for is that with a vaccine and good public health measures, we can bring it down to somewhere between really good control and elimination,” he said. “So that’s what a vaccine is going to do, but it’s not going to do that alone.”
https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-08-07/fauci-sph
