Subodh Kumar Samrat*

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, USA

*Corresponding Author: Subodh Kumar Samrat, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, USA.

Received: August 09, 2021; Published: November 01, 2021

The whole world is facing a massive challenge with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Although several vaccines have been developed, manufacturing them at a large scale and immunizing the vast population over the globe is a huge task. In addition to vaccine production and immunization challenges, the emergence of new viral variants is a new threat. Although it is recently reported that the current vaccine will protect people, with reduced efficacy, from different viral variants, it remains elusive how long these vaccines will protect human beings from the coronavirus and its variants.

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Citation

Citation: Subodh Kumar Samrat. “Pharmacology: SARS-CoV-2 and its Therapeutics".Acta Scientific Pharmacology 2.12 (2021): 01-02.

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Copyright: © 2020 Subodh Kumar Samrat. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.