Vaccines created false sense of security worldwide, WHO chief scientist says
From CNN’s Keri Enriquez
A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine in Quimper, France, on April 30. Fred Tanneau/AFP/Getty Images
The safety and availability of Covid-19 vaccines created a false sense of security worldwide that the pandemic was ending, according to World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.
“I think vaccines did create a false sense of security, to the extent that people around the world, even in countries that were not significantly vaccinating, thought that now the end of the pandemic had come because just because we had developed a number of vaccines and that they were proven to be safe and effective,” Swaminathan said in a panel discussion hosted by Physicians for Human Rights Friday.