Your Next COVID-19 Vaccine Can Be a Pill – Here’s How It Works
How will the pill vaccines change the pandemic?
Right now, we still have no idea how effective oral or nasal vaccines will be to protect us against COVID-19.
Judging by past experiences with using oral vaccination, though, specialists hope that this will be the key to ending the first pandemic in over 100 years.
In 1953, for example, the first injectable polio vaccines were administered. Nine years later, the oral version of the vaccine was also released – and that was the end of poliovirus worldwide!
Although researchers could never guarantee that the new coronavirus can be eradicated, an effective oral vaccine can reduce its spread extremely quickly and efficiently. Unlike injectable vaccines, pills and nasal sprays could also be transported much easier since they could be stored at room temperature.
