Journal of Preventive Medicine

Preventive Measures will Continue even after COVID Vaccination

The covid19 vaccination at the side of public health measures would definitely be a safer choice than betting on assumed herd immunity from natural infections. We're going to need masks and distancing for quite a while, no matter the vaccine regimen. It was a long struggle to adopt a new normal of wearing face masks, maintaining physical distance, hand washing and on-and-off lockdowns. We're about to and would like to leave masks and distancing for quite whereas, in spite of the vaccine plan it was a protracted struggle to adopt a replacement traditional of sporting face masks, maintaining physical distance, hand washing and on-and-off lockdowns. Then, with the approval of 2 vaccines, came the expectation that the globe can presently be cured of COVID-19, which we tend to imagine that all can resume our regular traditional life. We don’t tend to hold on to our new traditional for much longer. However, variety of things, like those associated with the character of those 2 vaccines, our compliance with the non-pharmaceutical preventive measures (face masks, physical distancing, hand washing, isolation and quarantine) and also the monumental task of inoculating an outsized portion of the population, challenge our expectations of a fast finish to the present pandemic.

Author(s):

Hilan Manda*

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