Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 has drawn a new era of global health concerns and brought a different focus to the importance of vaccination. COVID-19 vaccines unleashed unprecedented impacts on public health, the economy, and health systems globally thanks to the relatively fast development, deployment, and distribution. The SARS-CoV-2 virus and sustained mutation to produce Variants of Concern (VoC), making COVID-19 vaccines secure a cause for concern. However, they might complicate some health conditions like thrombocytopenia and myocarditis, among other issues regarding their effectiveness. their risks and consequences, side effects on pregnant women, the elderly, and people with immune diseases. As it focuses on the evaluation of the COVID-19 vaccine in aspects of efficacy and safety, distribution at a global scale, and future threats posed by new emergent pandemics. It remains, as we ponder over the lessons learned, to build up the vaccine foundation, hone the preparedness and effect of COVID-19 vaccines on the public, and address inequities so that in the future pandemic will not evolve into a globally devastating problem
DOI: 10.69613/h561pp34
Author: Sowmya Gayathri Mylavarapu
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403142259