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Would New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Change the War Against COVID-19?

Version 1 : Received: 11 March 2022 / Approved: 14 March 2022 / Online: 14 March 2022 (11:19:04 CET)

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Redwan, E.M.; Elrashdy, F.; Aljabali, A.A.A.; Baetas-da-Cruz, W.; Barh, D.; Brufsky, A.M.; Hassan, S.S.; Lundstrom, K.; Serrano-Aroca, Á.; Takayama, K.; Tambuwala, M.M.; Uhal, B.D.; Uversky, V.N. Would New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Change the War against COVID-19? Epidemiologia 2022, 3, 229-237. Redwan, E.M.; Elrashdy, F.; Aljabali, A.A.A.; Baetas-da-Cruz, W.; Barh, D.; Brufsky, A.M.; Hassan, S.S.; Lundstrom, K.; Serrano-Aroca, Á.; Takayama, K.; Tambuwala, M.M.; Uhal, B.D.; Uversky, V.N. Would New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Change the War against COVID-19? Epidemiologia 2022, 3, 229-237.

Abstract

The scientific, private and industrial sectors use a wide variety of technological platforms available to achieve protection against SARS-CoV-2, including vaccines. However, the virus evolves continually into new highly virulent variants, which might overcome the protection provided by vaccines and may re-expose the population to infections. Mass vaccinations should be continued in combination with more or less obligation mandatory non-pharmaceutical interventions. Therefore, the key questions to be answered are: (i) How to identify the primary and secondary infections of SARS-CoV-2? (ii) Why are neutralizing antibodies not long-lasting in both the cases of natural infections and post-vaccinations? (iii) Which are the factors responsible for this decay in neutralizing antibodies? (iv) What strategy could be adapted to develop long-term herd immunity? (v) Is the Spike the only vaccine candidate or a vaccine cocktail is better?

Keywords

SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; variant; sublineage; transmission; immunity; infection; vaccination; non-pharmaceutical interventions

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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