Will the new vaccines finally stop the corona virus?

Berlin It took just ten months to develop two effective vaccines after identifying and sequencing the new coronavirus. The mRNA vaccine had been tested on over 70,000 people. After just two months, the effectiveness was proven so convincingly that the historically unique vaccination campaigns could start.

Since then, these and other vaccines have saved countless lives. Despite mutated variants, they still prevent more Covid 19 patients from ending up in the hospital or even on a ventilator.

However, there is one thing that the current vaccines cannot do: stop the spread of the virus. They prevent people from becoming infected and passing on the virus only insufficiently and for a limited time. They were not able to end the pandemic as some had hoped. The reason, many experts are convinced, lies in a lack of immunity in the mucous membranes in the mouth and throat – where the virus enters the body.