We Could Never Have A ¡®Silver Bullet¡¯ Vaccine Cure For COVID-19, Says WHO Chief

Today, with vaccine makers from Moderna and Oxford University, among several others are competing to bring us the cure for ending COVID-19. With each in their final phases of studies, we¡¯re all desperately waiting for our lives to go back to normal.

However, the WHO chief doesn¡¯t feel a silver bullet would really save the day.

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Reported first by AFP, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, "We all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection, However, there's no silver bullet at the moment -- and there might never be."

He further stated that eventually bringing back the normal is in the hands of the people, not the vaccine, "For now, stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control. Do it all."

Mission in China

Apart from this, the WHO chief spoke about the mission where it invited experts to help investigate the animal origins of the novel coronavirus. They sent an epidemiologist and animal health specialist to Beijing on July 10 to identify how the virus entered humans. And now this scoping mission has been concluded.

He stated, "The WHO advance team that travelled to China has now concluded their mission to lay the groundwork for further joint efforts to identify the virus origins. WHO and Chinese experts have drafted the terms of reference for the studies and programme of work for an international team, led by WHO. The international team will include leading scientists and researchers from China and around the world.¡±

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He added, "Epidemiological studies will begin in Wuhan to identify the potential source of infection of the early cases. Evidence and hypotheses generated through this work will lay the ground for further, longer-term studies."

The experts haven¡¯t returned to WHO¡¯s Geneva HQ for a debriefing yet.