• S. Afr. Med. J. · Mar 2021

    Viruses, variants and vaccines.

    • D A Cowan, S G Burton, E P Rybicki, A-L Wiliamson, R A Dorrington, and M S Pepper.
    • Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. don.cowan@up.ac.za.
    • S. Afr. Med. J. 2021 Mar 1; 111 (5): 409-411.

    AbstractThe current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought a number of major global clinical, sociological and economic issues into sharp focus. We address some of these issues, focusing on short-term factors such as virus mutations and vaccine efficacy, and also considering the longer-term implications of the current pandemic. We discuss societal responses to the presence of a pathogen that will probably remain in circulation for decades or longer, and to future new emergent viruses.

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