Vaccines for COVID-19 – Can we avoid living again in a ghost town?

Over the last year, the pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have caused considerable havoc on society (1). Indeed, this has been a chronicle of an announced zoonosis (2,3). Its impact has been even deeper in developing countries (4,5), such as Colombia (6,7,8). So far, up to March 9, 2021, the world has recorded 117.5 million cases of COVID-19, with 2.6 million deaths (2.22%). Colombia is included in the Top 20 countries with the highest number of cases (2.282.372) and the Top 20 deaths globally (60.676).Despite the relative number of cases evolving to severe and fatal outcomes, given the pandemic's magnitude, its clinical significance is so relevant, as this emerging disease affects disproportionally people above 60 years old and with risk factors, especially under poverty. Among them are concentrated severe and fatal cases