A COVID-19 vaccine won’t mean a swift end for wearing masks or physical distancing
It’s a long process to get a vaccine out to 7.5 billion people, and an even longer one to answer important questions about its efficacy. That’s why Brandon Dionne, an assistant clinical professor of pharmacy and health systems sciences, says in the early stages of a vaccine rollout, “we're still going to need to use that in conjunction with masks, social distancing, and hand hygiene—like we've been doing—until we have more information about how [a vaccine] actually affects transmission.”