Why a Vaccine Won't Create Instant Immunity

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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An effective vaccine is seen as the world’s greatest hope for achieving some kind of return to normal, and the timeline for developing one has been sped up dramatically. But as hard as it’s going to be to make a vaccine quickly, once we do, we’ll have a new problem: Getting it to billions of people. Brendan Murray explains how difficult it will be for the global supply chain to distribute and administer the drug.

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0:34.0	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 138 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.7	Today's main story? While drug makers race to develop a safe and effective vaccine, making one is just the first challenge.
0:54.0	The global supply chain is not ready for what it takes to distribute an eventual vaccine to billions of people.
1:02.5	But first, here's what happened in virus news today. The virus has found its way into a younger demographic.
1:18.6	Around the world, infections among millennials and Generation Z are driving new waves of cases.
1:26.6	And even where restrictions have been reimposed, they aren't abating easily.
1:32.1	A major challenge?
1:33.6	Psychological fatigue with social distancing, especially as the pandemic drags into its eighth month.
1:41.9	Young adults are both less fearful of the coronavirus and face greater
1:47.0	economic and social costs when they stay home. The trend may be a sign that social distancing
1:54.0	is untenable over a long period, even though doing so flattened the virus curve in many places earlier this year.
2:03.6	Google will keep its employees home until at least next July,
2:08.6	according to a report by Dow Jones.
2:11.6	That makes the tech giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable in the face of the pandemic.
2:22.5	Finally, some insight into a potential vaccine. Once we've developed one, we may need to get a shot
2:29.4	every year, just like the flu shot. Kate Bingham, head of the UK's COVID vaccine task force, told Bloomberg TV
2:38.2	that an initial dose will probably reduce the severity of symptoms, and that continued treatment
2:45.5	will be needed to maintain immunity. Bingham said people who've had COVID don't show long-lasting immunity.
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