How to cite this article: Bhaumik S, Mukhida S, Das NK, Khan S, Patil R, Kannuri S. Can Vaccines Alone Bring an End to This Pandemic?. Natl J Community Med 2023;14(3):208-209. DOI: 10.55489/njcm.140320232647 Copy Right: The Authors retain the copyrights of this article, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications. This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given, and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. www.njcmindia.com│pISSN09763325│eISSN22296816│Published by Medsci Publications @2023 National Journal of Community Medicine│ Volume 14│Issue 03│March 2023 Page 208 LETTER TO EDITOR Can Vaccines Alone Bring an End to This Pandemic? Shalini Bhaumik 1 , Sahjid Mukhida 2 , Nikunja Kumar Das 3 , Sameena Khan 4 , Rajashri Patil 5 , Sriram Kannuri 6* 1-6 Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, India DOI: 10.55489/njcm.140320232647 Key words: Pandemic, Vaccine, Effectiveness, Immunity Dear Editor, Recently we passed through the covid-19 pandemic. We were eagerly waiting for the covid-19 vaccine but after the development of a vaccine, what benefits did we get? 1 In the era of vaccines, we want to give our input. In current century as well as in previous centuries many pandemics have occurred, the majority of which are viral pandemics like smallpox, H1N1 influ- enza, and many more. Our previous generation faced that battle and won the war against those bugs. They were transmitted by either contact, droplet, Air- borne, or environment route. Due to their high transmissibility nature, they easily crossed the origin country’s borders and traveled to other parts of the world. To become secure from the disease we always expected a shield against the disease. Vaccine concepts were given by Edward Jenner when they invented the first vaccine for smallpox. The vac- cine can be prepared from a killed organism, a live organism that is made weaker by some procedures in the laboratory so that protective antibodies are produced in the human or animal body. In each type of vaccine preparation, either humans or animals are getting infected and their body response gets the fi- nal vaccine version. During those research work, many human and animal lives were sacrificed in vac- cine preparation with the hypothesis of saving other lives. During the covid-19 pandemic, every person was waiting for the vaccine. They were alert for each step of vaccine trial updates. They were hoping that once the vaccine comes, it will make magic and the world will be free from the covid-19 virus which did not happen. The covid-19 pandemic begins in China in November 2019 and spread globally by March 2020. The Covishield vaccine trial was completed in De- cember 2020 and the mass vaccination program started in January 2021 in India. After 3-4 months of the vaccination program, a new variant of the virus was identified which showed the virus also making an antidote/ Shield against the vaccine. A R T I C L E I N F O Financial Support: None declared Conflict of Interest: None declared Received: 12-12-2022, Accepted: 17-02-2023, Published: 31-03-2023 *Correspondence: Dr. Sriram Kannuri (E-mail: Ksr27081993@gmail.com)