Early COVID-19 vaccines ‘won’t prevent infection’
Infectious diseases experts Dr Anthony Fauci and Professor Sharon Lewin discuss what’s next with COVID-19
The first COVID-19 vaccines will protect against disease rather than infection, highlighting a need to vaccinate the most vulnerable first, experts say.
Australian infectious diseases physician Professor Sharon Lewin raised the issue while speaking with the face of the US coronavirus response, Dr Anthony Fauci, in an online discussion on Wednesday night.
The pair were discussing approaches to mass vaccination against COVID-19, both clinically and in terms of tackling anti-vaccination sentiment.
Professor Lewin said it was important to realise that “first-generation vaccines largely protect against disease, not infection”.
