Aditi Medhekar

Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical, India

Publications

  • Review Article   
    Efficacy and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine
    Author(s): Aditi Medhekar, Ashok Mehendale and Komal Muneshwar*

    Background: COVID-19 is the emerging global medical emergency which has severely plagued the whole world. Large scale immunization program has already been started and it needs to be accelerated. Various types of vaccines such as messenger RNA vaccine, viral vector vaccine, protein subunit vaccines are being manufactured after emergency use authorization all across the world. These vaccine candidates need to be efficient and the reactogenicity must be as low as possible. The efficacy of the vaccine must be high and cohort of the studied patient should consist maximum number of subjects to get better results. As far now, all the vaccine candidates have shown good efficacy, but the mutation challenge is haunting as mutant variants can evade the vaccine protection. Preventive measures are one of the most effective measures available and which are time tested. Vaccine.. Read More»

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