⁍ UK Vaccine Taskforce Chair Kate Bingham said on Tuesday that the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines ‘is likely to be imperfect’
Bingham wrote that the Vaccine Taskforce recognises that ‘many, and possibly all, of these vaccines could fail’
She said that the global manufacturing capacity for vaccines is vastly inadequate for the billions of doses that are needed.

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– The first generation of coronavirus vaccines “is likely to be imperfect,” and “we should be prepared that they might not prevent infection but rather reduce symptoms, and, even then, might not work for everyone or for long,” warns the chair of Britain’s vaccine task force in the Lancet medical journal. Kate Bingham says the world needs billions of doses of vaccines to prevent a second wave of the disease, which has so far killed 19 people in the UK and sickened hundreds more, reports Reuters. “However, we do not know that we will ever have a vaccine at all,” Bingham writes. “It is important to guard against complacency and over-optimism.”