COVID-19: Vaccines, myths, and misconceptions in Africa Experts share their insights

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the start of the pandemic, scientists and pharmaceutical companies frantically searched for an effective vaccine. 1-4 Various platforms have employed traditional vaccine develop- ment approaches like live attenuated virus, inactivated virus, recombinant-protein based, viral-like particles and explored newer platforms like non-replicating viral vector, replicating viral vector, peptide-based, DNA and RNA based vaccines.1-8 There are currently over 300 COVID-19 candidate vaccines at different levels of development but about ten are currently being used.