Experts answer how effective the Corona vaccine will be

A new survey conducted by a vaccine center revealed that two-thirds of global disease experts believe that the variants of the Corona virus will make vaccines ineffective within one year, according to "Sky News".

About 66 percent of epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease specialists say they believe that within 12 months, the virus will mutate to such a degree that first-generation vaccines are useless in preventing infection.

Among that group of specialists, nearly a fifth believed that these vaccines would lose their effectiveness within 6 months, and a third said that this would happen within 9 months.

While less than one in 8 doctors said they believe that the mutations in the Corona virus will not make the currently available vaccines ineffective, according to the British newspaper "Daily Mail", on Wednesday.

And 18.2 percent of them said they believed it would take at least two years before the virus mutated to the point that vaccines would be ineffective in protecting against it.

"The more the virus spreads, the more likely it is that mutations and variants will emerge, which may make our current vaccines ineffective," said Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, one of the epidemiologists surveyed.

The survey was conducted by the People's Vaccine Alliance, which is a coalition of more than 50 organizations such as the African Alliance, Oxfam and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV "AIDS".

The survey, the results of which were published Tuesday, included 77 epidemiologists between February 17 and March 25 from 28 countries around the world.