Emerging issues in COVID-19 vaccination in tropical areas: Impact of the immune response against helminths in endemic areas

Abstract

Researchers worldwide are trying to find valuable drugs against the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Some of them focused as antivirals, others targeted in other ways (e.g. immunomodulation) to relieve the symptoms of the infected patients and help lower the death toll throughout the world. Unfortunately, there is a lack of effective drugs to manage COVID-19. The hopeful and long-awaited development of vaccines and the approval of their use in humans is a fact. The time consuming that it Will take to achieve herd immunity due to waiting for the availability and distribution of the vaccines is a reality in full swing and shows significant health inequalities...