Thoughts and Prospects of Developing New Coronavirus Vaccine

ABSTRACT

With the rapid alleviation of the new coronavirus epidemic, China has progressed into a stage of low or no viral transmission.Although local and sporadic outbreaks are still a real possibility, with the valuable medical treatment and public epidemic management experience, as well as the high vigilance and preparedness of the entire country, potential future outbreak should be "preventable and manageable".According to experts from home and abroad, the novel coronavirus will likely to exist within human communities for a long time with seasonal or sporadic recurrence.Therefore, a critical and essential defense measure to prevent next epidemic is to establish broad immunity within large population against the new coronavirus.At present, countries around the world are aggressively developing vaccines against the new coronavirus, in order to build up so-called "Herd Immunity"through vaccination.In this review, the author discussed several vaccine development technology platforms and compared the advantages and disadvantages of these platforms and their products, in a hope to provide useful thoughts and suggestions for scientists who are fiercely developing novel vaccines against time.