‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from #COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
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Le virologue Peter Piot raconte sa propre (et très éprouvante) expérience de la COVID-19 et appelle à prendre très au sérieux cette maladie,
Let’s be clear: Without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again. The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide. That means producing billions of doses of it, which, in itself, is a huge challenge in terms of manufacturing logistics. And despite the efforts, it is still not even certain that developing a COVID-19 vaccine is possible.
Today there’s also the paradox that some people who owe their lives to vaccines no longer want their children to be vaccinated. That could become a problem if we want to roll out a vaccine against the coronavirus, because if too many people refuse to join, we will never get the pandemic under control.