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Jab or pill: What would be better? Pharmaceutical Scientist Andreas Kungl explains, which medicine fights the pandemic

Andreas Kungl works as a scientist at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences: “When I’m asked if would it be better now to have a vaccination against COVID-19 or medication to treat it, I can say with certainty – indeed I want to emphasise – that both are needed.

Vaccination offers protection, a prophylactic measure against future infections. Medication helps when a patient has already become infected. That means medication will be certainly be needed for groups who cannot be given a vaccination. These include people with severe autoimmune diseases or who are susceptible to anaphylactic shock.
And as we all know, there are also groups of people who will reject vaccination, who simply do not want to have it. Then there will also be new virus mutations that in some cases cannot be combated so effectively by the new vaccinations. Here too we will need medications in future.“

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