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Viruses, variants and vaccines
Cowan, Don A.; Burton, Stephanie G.; Rybicki, E.P.; Williamson, A.-L.; Dorrington, R.A.; Pepper, Michael Sean
The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought a number of major global clinical, sociological and economic issues into sharp focus.
We address some of these issues, focusing on short-term factors such as virus mutations and vaccine efficacy, and also considering the
longer-term implications of the current pandemic. We discuss societal responses to the presence of a pathogen that will probably remain in
circulation for decades or longer, and to future new emergent viruses.