Paula Alves’ opinion on the role of vaccines in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic

Paula Alves, CEO of iBET, wrote an opinion piece for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos on the role of vaccines against COVID-19, developed by Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, and vaccination in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Click in the image below to read the full article (in Portuguese)

Selected quotes:

• "Vaccines have a fundamental role, with a lot of proven evidence, in preventing infectious diseases"
• "If effective, vaccines will be the solution to this pandemic"
• "Vaccination against COVID-19 is today an unprecedented global effort, with challenges at various levels, namely the ability to produce the necessary doses to vaccinate the vast majority of the world population, its distribution and administration and the monitoring of its effect"
• "It is important to highlight the importance of advances in biotechnology and its contribution to the advancement of vaccines. We now have flexible and scalable technological platforms that facilitate the vaccine production process and the possibility of a relatively quick response to new variants of this virus or other viruses that may appear in the future"