COVID-19: Lessons from Norway tragedy must be considered in vaccine rollout planning in least developed/developing countries

Razmin Bari; Asim Kumar Bepari; Hasan Mahmud Reza

doi:10.1515/med-2021-0334

COVID-19: Lessons from Norway tragedy must be considered in vaccine rollout planning in least developed/developing countries

Open Med (Wars). 2021 Aug 11;16(1):1168-1169. doi: 10.1515/med-2021-0334. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Razmin Bari¹, Asim Kumar Bepari², Hasan Mahmud Reza²

Affiliations

¹ College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
² Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.

Abstract

All governments, regulatory authorities, and vaccine-related committees are under tremendous pressure to roll out vaccines to safeguard the people against COVID-19. To be noted that all COVID-19 vaccines have been developed hurriedly, some with new technologies being used on humans for the first time ever. Most clinical trials did not include elderly patients with comorbidities, hence a careful and logical rollout planning, especially for elderly people, is necessary.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccine; comorbidities; elderly population.