SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Vaccines: The Promises and the Challenges Ahead

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Hygiene and Public Health Unit, University of Padua, 35100 Padua, Italy.
² Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.

Editorial

Vincenzo Baldo et al. Vaccines (Basel). 2021.

. 2021 Jan 4;9(1):21.

doi: 10.3390/vaccines9010021.

¹ Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Hygiene and Public Health Unit, University of Padua, 35100 Padua, Italy.
² Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.

Abstract

The development of a new vaccine usually consists of a linear sequence of several steps and lasts many years [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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