Although the start of the vaccination program to protect the Moroccan population against the coronavirus is imminent, experts’ opinions differ considerably on this decision. For example, French professor Axel Kahn recently said in an interview with RMC radio that the Chinese vaccines against Covid-19 are among the most advanced in the world. However, the Moroccan professor Abdeljabar El Andaloussi has a completely different opinion on this.
According to Kahn, the Chinese vaccines are the safest because they are based on the “old-fashioned” technology that uses inactivated viruses to trigger an immune response in the body against the coronavirus. Morocco has opted for a vaccine of this type by partnering with the Chinese Sinopharm. But this choice is not preferred by all scientists involved in the problem, Consonews reports.
Moroccan Abdeljabar El Andaloussi, research professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says that “any vaccine based on an attenuated virus should be avoided.” He explicitly mentions the vaccines from Sinopharm and Pfizer that he believes are not suitable for use.
In the newspaper Maroc Hebdo, El Andaloussi mentions three reasons why this solution should not be chosen. First, the virus does not work in all affected, treated, and recovered patients. In addition, observation of vaccinated volunteers has shown that some of them develop the symptoms of the disease, which means that the vaccine received by these people is insufficient. And finally, given the lack of knowledge about the origin of the virus, not enough is known about how the coronavirus might affect other viruses that humans can contract. “
El Andaloussi advises to “devote time to the ongoing clinical trials and wait at least a year for the follow-up of the volunteers’ health status and drop the panicky idea of massive and mandatory vaccination”.
He also pointed out that the United States has just announced that volunteers in ill health will be recruited to participate in an ongoing clinical trial for a grant of $ 1,220. This proves, according to El Andaloussi, “that we have not yet come out of the clinical trial phase and that there are still many doubts about vaccination against Covid-19”.
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