Abstract
Introduction: Appearances of SARS-CoV-2 variants have created havoc and additional challenges for the ongoing vaccination drive against pandemic COVID-19. Interestingly, several vaccine platforms are showing great potential to produce successful vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Mix-and-Match COVID-19 vaccines involving the mixing of the same platform vaccines and also two different vaccine platforms may provide greater protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. COVID-19 vaccines have become one of the most important tools to mitigate the ongoing pandemic COVID-19.
Areas covered: We describe SARS-Cov-2 variants, their impact on the population, COVID-19 vaccines, diverse vaccine platforms, doses of vaccines, the efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, mitigation of the COVID-19 transmission- alternatives to vaccines.
Expert opinion: Diverse vaccine platforms may safeguard against ongoing, deadly SARS-CoV-2 and its infectious variants. The efficacies of COVID-19 vaccines are significantly high after the administration of the second dose. Further, it protects individuals including vulnerable patients with co-morbidities from SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. The hospitalizations and deaths of the individuals may be prevented by COVID-19 vaccines.
Keywords: COVID-19; diverse; platforms; sars-cov-2; vaccines; variants.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccines, variants, diverse, platforms, 【초록키워드】 Efficacy, Vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine, vaccination, pandemic, Hospitalization, SARS-CoV-2 variant, variants, COVID-19 vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 variants, hospitalizations, death, co-morbidity, Mitigation, vaccine platform, platform, co-morbidities, administration, dose, COVID-19 transmission, second dose, individual, appearance, morbidities, mixing, doses, vulnerable patients, Administered, mitigate, expert, PROTECT, greater, significantly, prevented, Area, vulnerable patient, 【제목키워드】 variant, vaccine platform,