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01-11-2020 | Vaccination | Editorial

Vaccine development in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a balancing act on accuracy and speed

Authors: Sergio Linares-Fernández, Peter Francis Raguindin

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 8/2020

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Developing a safe and effective vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is crucial to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But even during a global public health crisis, precautions and careful measures are necessary to ensure that new vaccines are safe for the population (Hotez et al. 2020). …

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Title: Vaccine development in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a balancing act on accuracy and speed
Authors: Sergio Linares-Fernández
Peter Francis Raguindin
Publication date: 01-11-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Vaccination
SARS-CoV-2
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01511-2

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