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Coronavirus vaccine ‘won’t be ready for second wave’ and ‘won’t solve problem’

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coronavirus vaccine will not be produced in time for the second wave, with Brits in for a “bumpy winter”. Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, said vaccines won’t “solve the problem”.Fears of an imminent second wave have escalated recently, with infection rates creeping up across Europe.Prof Bell feels mass testing will be crucial in trying to curb the spread of the virus.Speaking on a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, he said: "My bet is that we will get a second wave, and the vaccines won't get here in time to stop the second wave."And I'm not sure the new home testing is going to get there in time either, but it perhaps will take the edge off it."But then I suspect by Christmas or early in.

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