Is chemotherapy the current solution to the pandemic, or is the vaccine safe and sound?
We donnot have vaccine . Even after being available we cannot know its efficacy and safety
I think theoretically the vaccine is the most viable solution. The scarcity of the sample on which to test it and the slowness in its production will make it necessary to resort to safety measures such as social distancing and chemoprophylaxis for a long time.
Sure the Vaccine is the mainstay solution but the other drugs used now a day till final preparation of vaccine reached.
@Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz
Yes, the vaccination seems to be the main remedy, but then the other drugs administered a day before the final vaccine scheduling was achieved.
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Chemotherapy is basically given for cancer ,for cancerious cell which use to be develop irregularly.but case to corona it is such different so chemotherapy is not applicable for this.
cancer chemotherapy is one of the treatment modality for malignancies.
therefore it is not the treatment for corona infection.
with respect to vaccine, is on clinical trial.
As per the media information, vaccine against COVID-19 may be available in India by the end of next month.We hope that the vaccine may be safe and effective, and will be used to immunize the susceptible population against this devastating viral disease.
Vaccine is what we need but it is not yet available. The world is united in formulating the vaccine at the moment so let's wait for it.Chemotherapy is not advisable because it might kill the good cells and there is no malignancies after all. Let's follow the advise of CDC.
A vaccine is the best solution, however, in the development phase at present.
Chemotherapy is yet largely unproven, costly and not without side effects
Working in a cancer chemotherapy unit, I would say that chemotherapy would be a very unlikely treatment for COVID-19 due to the mechanism of action for chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy drugs. A vaccine is the absolute best option and we just hope that some very talented researchers around the world will discover a vaccine that is effective asap. There are many countries that claim to have a vaccine which they believe may be proven to work very shortly. As I live in Australia, of course I will be hoping it will be one of ours 😊
Vaccines need time to be tested, because you don't know their long term effects. Some doctors are dead against vaccines. For example, the flu vaccine that some of us took this past winter was not effective at all.
A good vaccine will be launched in the coming days, to keep working
Vaccines are expected towards the end of this year or early next year, but whether they would be effective for the mass population is yet to be seen.
Vaccins will give good money, See latest news on. The question, which are the existed global antiviral therapies ?? None. We got Amp which saved millions of humans. Science needs to progress and for that we need to make the distinction between money and scientific progress. Science is not a super market.
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