Vaccinate with Confidence and Finish Strong

Abstract

China's sustained containment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has spared over 99% of the mainland of China's 1.4 billion people from exposure to and infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants for an astonishing two and a half years. Although the whole-of-government, whole-of-society containment effort has its own socioeconomic costs, the now-called dynamic COVID-zero strategy purchased a rare commodity -tranquil time with relatively little suffering and death from COVID-19 to develop and deploy tools for escaping the pandemic: diagnostics, vaccines, antivirals, and knowledge (1).

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