New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Challenge Vaccines Protection

New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Challenge Vaccines Protection

Vicente Soriano 1, José V. Fernández-Montero 2

1 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain; 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

*Correspondence: José V. Fernández-Montero, Email not available

Abstract

By the end of February 2021, roughly 115 million people worldwide had been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and more than 2.5 million had died. Uneasily, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is increasingly resembling the tragic 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people a century ago.

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